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The article examines the deliberation on the classification of religious books in the U.S. It discusses the distinction between the Library of Congress (LC) classifications system or Lynn-Peterson Alternative Classifications (AC). It highlights the survey conducted to accomplish a total conversion for the Cannon Memorial Library, which showed most of the libraries surveyed had converted using the LC system rather than AC. Moreover, it concludes that both the LC classification system and AC do not always work.

The article features the scheme of library classification applied to standard catalogs and printed cards for public libraries in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Two important facts about the classification scheme are excluded from the title page such as the version of the Dewey Decimal Classification and that the scheme is in a direct line of succession to the L. N. Tropovskii abridgment of Dewey. In spite that it is widely used for the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin literature to the Soviet Union, it is still a fact that the scheme is based on Dewey which was also admitted by Tropovskii in his introduction. The two important changes in Tropovskii's short schedule are the use of special devices for giving primacy to the classics of communism and books on the USSR and people's republics.