Decimal Classification System

Decimal Classification System
Author: Sushma Gupta
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9788175330580

The Dewey Decimal Classification System, popularly known as DC or DDC, was created by Melvil Dewey more than a century ago. Since then it has gone through constant changes and has grown from a 44 page booklet to four volumes. But its basic plan, notation and desire to serve librarianship has remained stable.

A Handbook of Classification and Cataloguing

A Handbook of Classification and Cataloguing
Author: Margaret S. Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000506770

This book, first published in 1939, deals with the elements of classification and cataloguing from the school library point of view. The Dewey, Cheltenham and Bliss schemes are fully examined and there is a chapter on the practical application of classification in the library. There are simplified rules for Author and Title catalogues, while the different kinds of subject catalogues are compared, and instructions given for their compilation. Many practical examples of cataloguing entries are shown.

Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer

Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer
Author: Joan S. Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136454004

Can the Dewey Decimal System meet the needs of the rapidly changing information environment? Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer explores the Dewey Decimal System from a variety of perspectives, each of which peels away a bit of the “presentation layer”—the familiar linear notational sequence-to reveal the content and context offered by the DDS. Library professionals from around the word examine how the content and context offered by the DDS can evolve to meet the needs of the changing information environment, with a special focus on the impact of the Internet on current and future developments. Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer examines whether the Dewey Decimal System is a rigid structure best suited to a physical information environment or a polymorphic one that can be adapted to meet a variety of physical and virtual needs. This unique book reviews the 40-year history of the online use of classification systems, the development of the Relative Index over 22 editions of the DDC, recommendations to ensure the viability of the DDC in a time of mass digitization, using DDS in an environment where it hasn’t been used before, teaching the DDS, special issues related to the use of the DDS in Europe, North America, and Africa, and the future of online classification. Topics examined in Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer include: using the DDC as the browsing mechanism for resource discovery classification as an online cataloging tool classification as an online end-user tool browser behavior in a DDC-based Web service the role of the DDS in the ongoing HILT (High-Level Thesaurus) project using the DDS to organize Web resources localization and interoperability in knowledge organization mapping terminologies to classification systems the DeweyBrowser and much more Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer is an essential professional resource for librarians, information scientists, computer scientists, and metadata and Web services specialists.

Library Manuals

Library Manuals
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 3514
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 100080724X

This set, comprising out-of-print titles from The Library Association Series of Library Manuals and The Practical Library Handbooks, is a key guide to the early modernisation of librarianship. Systems set up then are still in use today, giving the books practical use today, as well as providing a valuable historical analysis of the discipline.

Classification

Classification
Author: Margaret May Herdman
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1978
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Discusses the history and application of classification systems, providing an analysis and critique of the major systems in use today and offering a set of principles and rules for those engaged in book classification.