The book examines the history, management and technical aspects of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC), the world's most popular library classification. The main emphasis is on explaining the structure and number building techniques in the DDC. The book reviews all aspects of subject analysis and number building by the latest edition of the DDC.
The book examines the history, management and technical aspects of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC), the world's most popular library classification. The main emphasis is on explaining the structure and number building techniques in the DDC. The book reviews all aspects of subject analysis and number building by the latest edition of the DDC.
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-1-84334-235-9 (9781843342359)
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Dr M P Satija is a Professor of Library and Information Science in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. He has been writing about the DDC and other related areas in knowledge organization for the last two decades in international journals. He has collaborated with the successive two chief editors of the DDC, and is the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
Dr M P Satija is a Professor of Library and Information Science in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. He has been writing about the DDC and other related areas in knowledge organization for the last two decades in international journals. He has collaborated with the successive two chief editors of the DDC, and is the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
A brief history of the Dewey Decimal Classification; Governance and revision of the DDC; Introduction to the text in four volumes; Basic plan and structure; Subject analysis and locating class numbers; Table and rules for precedence of classes; Number building; Use of Table 1: standard subdivisions; Use of Table 2: geographical areas, historical periods, persons; Use of Table 3: subdivisions for individual literatures, literary forms and the arts; Table 4: subdivisions of individual languages, and Table 6: languages; Using Table 5: national and ethnic groups; Multiple synthesis; Using the relative index.
