Customer-centred literature management system

A database for a literature classification scheme, the database including information of one or more items of literature, the information comprising:

• a title, an author and an ISBN of the item of literature;
• wherein the literature classification system comprises:
• a) a plurality of categories;
• b) one or more subcategories associated with each category, with at least two of the plurality of categories having a different number of sub-categories;
• c) one or more subjects associated with each subcategory, thereby defining a unique classification set consisting of a category, subcategory and subject;
• d) a unique code assigned to each classification set;
• and
• e) classification of each item of literature in accordance with a corresponding classification set and unique code.

A database system for works of literature, the database system comprising:

• a) a memory for a database structure comprising entries arranged into categories, each category having associated with it a respective plurality of subcategories, each subcategory having associated with it information of a respective plurality of works of literature, the information comprising identification information of the respective plurality of works of literature and data associated with the respective plurality of works of literature, at least two of the plurality of categories having a different number of the subcategories;
• b) a GUI (Graphical User Interface) unit for:
• i) displaying a GUI to a user for user selection of a particular category and a particular subcategory within the particular category, the categories comprising the particular category and the plurality of categories comprising the particular subcategory;
• ii) displaying the identification information of the respective plurality of works of literature associated with the particular subcategory for user selection of a particular work of literature, the respective plurality of works of literature comprising the particular work of literature;
• and
• iii) displaying the data associated with the particular work of literature;
• and,
• c) a database manager coupled to the memory and the GUI unit for:
• i) retrieving from the database structure the identification information of the respective plurality of works of literature of the particular subcategory in response to the user selection of the particular category and the particular subcategory for use by the GUI unit in displaying the identification information of the respective plurality of works of literature associated with the particular subcategory;
• and,
• ii) retrieving from the database structure the data associated with the particular work of literature in response to the user selection of the particular work of literature for use by the GUI unit in the displaying the data associated with the particular work of literature.