Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index [23rd edition] PDF
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Dedicated t 0 the worldwide Dewey community 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
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