A handbook of history, theory and practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification / M.P. Satija and Alex Kyrios.

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age, primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than an occasionally updated set of print volumes. Its editors have added newly emerging topics and made it an...

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Main Authors: Satija, Mohinder Partap, 1949- (Author), Kyrios, Alex, 1987- (Author)
Other title:Handbook of history, theory and practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Facet Publishing, [2023].
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505 0 |a Cover -- Praise for A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: A Brief History of the Dewey Decimal Classification -- 2: Governance and Revision of the DDC -- Introduction -- Revising the Classification -- Responsibility of revision -- Major revisions -- Current policy -- 3: Introduction to the Text -- Introduction -- Types of entries -- Notes -- Dot and spaces -- 4: Basic Plan and Structure -- Classification by discipline -- Notation -- Division of main classes -- Chain structure -- Array structure -- Patterns in structure -- Hospitality -- 5: Subject Analysis and Locating Class Numbers -- Introduction -- Determining the specific subject -- Facet analysis -- Non-subject aspects -- Assigning a class number -- 6: Tables and Rules for Precedence and Citation Order -- Introduction -- Tables of preference -- Instructions -- Preference by specificity -- Publications with two or more subjects -- Comprehensive works and interdisciplinary works -- Table of last resort -- 7: Number Building -- Introduction -- Adding from 001-999 -- Adding part of a number -- Adding from a main class -- Adding from a section -- Adding from the same section -- Adding through a facet indicator -- Synthesis through internal tables -- Addition from Tables 1-6 -- 8: Use of Table 1 Standard Subdivisions -- Introduction -- Nomenclature -- Categories -- Characteristics of standard subdivisions -- How to use standard subdivisions -- Adding a standard subdivision to a main class or division -- Use of more than one zero -- Extending a standard subdivision with add instructions -- Extending a standard subdivision with T2 and T5 -- Modified standard subdivisions -- Displaced standard subdivisions. 
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