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

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.