The Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal, and Universal Decimal Classification Systems are Incomplete and Unsystematic
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1715-720X
DOI: 10.18438/b8qk7s