On 5/21/08 2:19 PM, "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What would it take to get them cataloged individually? Interest in having them cataloged individually. I believe LC catalogs everything it receives. I've been out of librarianship long enough not to know how they receive electronic-only material. There are a couple of RFCs in the OCLC database but not a lot, and they seem to under the subject heading "Computer networks-- standards". Cataloging helps solve the problem of finding the document. Subject headers and classification help solve the problem of finding the information in the document. As university libraries are apparently currently classifying RFCs the subject classification is so broad as to be useless and I would guess that there's not currently a problem with locating the documents (for reasonable people, anyway). I think the answer to the question of how easy it is to locate the *information* in the documents (i.e. information retrieval) is a lot less clear but I'm not sure the necessarily broad categories in the LC subject classifications would help with that problem at all (in fact, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't). But more information is usually better than less information, so what the heck. Melinda _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf