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Dewey Decimal Classification

Scott, Mona L.

Price: $78.00
ISBN13: 9781591582106
ISBN10: 1591582105
Book code: LU2105
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Hardcover | 360 pages
Publication Date: 04/30/2005

DESCRIPTION

This guide is an essential purchase for technical services departments in all libraries, and has been updated to cover the changes introduced by the new edition of the DDC, which was published in August 2003. The study manual is used as a reference for the application of Dewey and is also suitable as a course text in Dewey. Scott provides an in-depth review of how DDC is updated and gives detailed lists of changes in each table and class.

This work has been fully updated for the 22nd edition of DDC, and is used as reference for the application of Dewey coding or as a course text in the Dewey System.

CONTENTS

Preface

DDC History and Current Status

General Aspects of the Dewey Decimal Classification

Principles of Number Building

The Tables

Class 000: Generalities

Class 100: Philosophy, Paranormal Phenomena, Psychology

Class 200: Religion

Class 300: Social Sciences

Class 400: Language

Class 500: Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Class 600: Technology (Applied Sciences)

Class 700: The Arts; Fine and Decorative Arts

Class 800: Literature (Belles-Lettres) and Rhetoric

Class 900: Geography, History, and Auxiliary Disciplines

Book Numbers

Select Bibliography

Appendix: Answers to the Exercises

Index

MONA L. SCOTT is currently Head of the Joint Personnel Recovery Library at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. Previously Head of Technical Services at the Bureau of the Census Library, and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Library. This is the second edition of this book to be published, and soon the third edition of Conversion Tables: LC-Dewey, Dewey-LC will be in print.