The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Satija, M. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843347385 ISBN 13: 9781843347385

Verlag: Chandos Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) is the world's most popular library classification system. The 23rd edition of the DDC was published in 2011. This second edition of The Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System examines the history, management and technical aspects of the DDC up to its latest edition. The book places emphasis on explaining the structure and number building techniques in the DDC and reviews all aspects of subject analysis and number building by the most recent version of the DDC. A history of, and introduction to, the DDC is followed by subject analysis and locating class numbers, chapters covering use of the tables and subdivisions therein, multiple synthesis, and using the relative index. In the appendix, a number of academically-interesting questions are identified and answered.

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M. P. Satija is a Professor of Library and Information Science at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. He has been writing about the DDC and other related areas in knowledge organization, in international journals, for the last two decades. He has collaborated with the two successive chief editors of the DDC, and is the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chandos Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1843347385
• ISBN 13: 9781843347385
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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