Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index [23rd edition]

868 Pages·2011·20.139 MB·English

by  Melvil Dewey

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Contents
Volume 1
Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee xi
Acknowledgments xv
New Features in Edition 23 xxi
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification xliii
About the Introduction xliii
Classification: What It Is and What It Does xliii
History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification xliii
Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification xliv
Conceptual Framework xliv
Notation xlvi
Principle of Hierarchy xlvi
Classifying with the DDC xlvii
Determining the Subject of a Work xlvii
Determining the Discipline of a Work xlviii
More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline xlviii
More Than One Discipline xlix
Table of Last Resort 1
How DDC 23 Is Arranged li
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables li
Summaries li
Entries lii
Notes liii
Number Building lviii
Citation and Preference Order lxiv
Citation Order lxiv
Preference Order lxiv
The Manual lxvi
Arrangement and Format of the Manual lxvi
The Relative Index lxvii
Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index lxvii
Interdisciplinary Numbers lxviii
Terms Included in the Relative Index lxix
Terms Not Included in the Relative Index lxx
Options lxx
Dewey Decimal ClassiJication
Close and Broad Classification lxxi
More Information lxxi
Glossary lxxiii
Index to the Introduction and Glossary lxxxiii
Manual 1
Notes on Table Numbers 3
Notes on Schedule Numbers 43
Tables 177
Table 1. Standard Subdivisions 179
Table 2. Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography 210
Table 3. Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures,
for Specific Literary Forms 637
Table 3A. Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors 638
Table 3B. Subdivisions for Works by or about More than One Author 644
Table 3C. Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3B,
700.4, 791.4, 808-809 665
Table 4. Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Language Families 678
Table 5. Ethnic and National Groups 69 1
Table 6. Languages 727
Relocations and Discontinuations 763
Relocations 763
Discontinuations 770
Comparative Table 773
Equivalence Tables 776
Reused Numbers 779
Volume 2
Summaries
Schedules
000 Computer science, information, general works
100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology
200 Religion
300 Social sciences
400 Language
500 Natural sciences and mathematics