Standard system for South Tyrolean libraries

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The standard system for South Tyrolean libraries (ESSB) is the most widely used system for non-fiction in South Tyrol's public and school libraries . It was published in 1982 by the then Büchereistelle des Landes in Bolzano and its basic structure is based on the general system for public libraries . It was thoroughly revised from 2001 to 2005 and a new version was published in early 2006. Since then, it has been updated once a year and adapted to current developments.

construction

The ESSB only includes non-fiction, which is divided into 16 subject areas (general, geography, history, house and agriculture, art, literature, medicine, music, natural sciences, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences and law, sport and leisure activities , Technology). These subject areas are further subdivided by numbers up to the third level, each separated by a point. A complete ESSB notation therefore consists of the first two letters of the subject area and a combination of numbers. For example, a medium on Pustertal culture would be assigned the following notation:

He 2.2.7
Subject area He (geography, ethnology)
1st level 2 (Europe)
2nd level 2.2 (South Tyrol)
3rd level 2.2.7 (Pustertal)

New version

Towards the end of the 1990s it became clear that the existing ESSB was partly out of date, especially in the areas of society, science and technology. In 1999 the topic was placed on the agenda of a conference of the South Tyrolean central libraries. There it was decided against the introduction of ASB or Dewey and a revision of the ESSB. After a questionnaire campaign in the summer of 2000, two employees of the State Office for Libraries (AfB) and the South Tyrol Library Association began their actual work in May 2001. Each subject area was individually revised, checked by experts from the respective area, forwarded to the central libraries for review and practically tested in two test libraries ( Brixen and Olang ). In 2005 this process was completed and the new ESSB was published on January 1, 2006.

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