UID:
almafu_9961264440502883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 244 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78330-611-4
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1-78330-612-2
Content:
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 increasingly faceted, semantically rich, modern system. Simultaneously, the editorial process has become democratised and more responsive to global needs.〈br〉〈br〉〈i〉A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System〈/i〉 is a comprehensive, practical guide to today's DDC. Coverage includes: a brief history of the system, its editors, and its development; specialized examinations of specific parts of the classification; extensive guidance on number building, with many examples; a WebDewey-specific chapter, covering the system's benefits and features; concise summaries of primary takeaways, a glossary, and extensive bibliography.〈br〉〈br〉This book will be an indispensable guide to twenty-first century DDC, an essential companion for DDC classifiers, and accessible for students and continuing learners as well.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023).
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78330-609-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78330-610-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781783306114/type/BOOK
