After a recent trip to the Shoe Museum while on vacation with friends, I decided I wanted to create a mock scheme of LCC for shoes. With a sarcastic wit and constant love for LCC, I have created several mock schemes using it and other mediums. In this case I have used shoes. Look for future websites linked here for other Willoughby mock schemes.

This scheme is more inductive than LCC as it widens its focus to the entire universe of footwear. Instead of the entire universe of anything, LCC narrows itself with literary warrant, as does the Copley scheme and the Copley-Willoughby collaborative effort. Thus, I didn't work with my shoes here, but turned to all the shoes I could think of to find the best representative of each actual LCC class. Of course, I made fun of LCC rather than representing it seriously; I think humor does a super job of highlighting the problems with LCC.

The differences in my scheme and the two other shoes schemes featured on this site illustrate the differences between the 48 schedules of LCC, which have been written and edited by different people over time. This style of classification lends to confusion, duplication, and misrepresentation of materials--problems that could be avoided if the scheme had an index.

I hope you find my mock scheme entertaining, and return in the future to see some of the others!

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