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}}</ref> Library classification helps to accommodate all the newly published literature in an already created order of arrangement in a filial sequence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pandita |first1=Ramesh |last2=Singh |first2=Shivendra |title=NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION IN ICT ERA |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260433354 |journal=Journal of Indian Library Association |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=25–30 |date=November 2012 |access-date=2021-01-18 |language=en}}</ref>
 
Library classification can be defined as the arrangement of books on shelves, or description of them, in the manner which is most useful to those who read with the ultimate aim of grouping similar things together. Library classification is meant to achieve these four purposes: ordering the fields of knowledge in a systematic way, bring related items together in the most helpful sequence, provide orderly access on the shelf, and provide a ___location for an item on the shelf.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mlinar|first=Courtney|date=September 1, 2021|title=Library Classification System: What is the Library Classification System?|url=https://researchguides.austincc.edu/classif|url-status=live|access-date=October 18, 2021|website=Austin Community College}}</ref>
 
Library classification is distinct from the application of [[Index term|subject headings]] in that classification organizes knowledge into a systematic order, while subject headings provide access to intellectual materials through vocabulary terms that may or may not be organized as a knowledge system.<ref name=chan >{{Citation