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Articles in Fall, 1998 issue of Library Trends

The Dynamics of Classification Systems as Boundary Objects for Cooperation in the Electronic Library - systems should work in tandem with users
by Hanne Albrechtsen
Seeking the Subject - .searching in networked environments - )
by Jennifer Tobias
Mapping Beyond Dewey's Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains - Dewey Decimal Classification excludes some groups
by Hope A. Olson
The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems - administrative history of large-scale classification systems
by Geoffrey C. Bowker
Social Constructs and Disease: Implications for a Controlled Vocabulary for HIV/AIDS - )
by Jeffrey T. Huber
Psychiatrists make Diagnoses, but not in Circumstances of Their Own Choosing: Agency and Structure in the DSM - 1 - classification systems for psychiatrists
by Mark A. Spasser
Introduction - issue's articles address library classification challenges
by Susan Leigh Star
Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification
by Susan Leigh Star

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