Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpmcaa!nacer From: nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: FOX/DB3 library manager request? Message-ID: <1910011@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> Date: 7 Dec 89 19:03:39 GMT References: <1910010@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> Organization: HP McMinville Division Lines: 12 Would anyone be kind to provide good sources (books, articles, papers...) for how one should approach the problem of designing a numbering or identification scheme say for a small church library system (15,000 books). I am interested if it would discuss the benefits and drawbacks of several techniques regarding flexibility, uniqueness, readability, compactness, popularity of these serialization schemes. Best regards. Abdenacer Moussaoui. PS. I would like to avoid any (too much) theory stuff :-) thanks.