Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index,9780910608732

Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index

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Edition: 14th
ISBN13: 9780910608732
ISBN10: 0910608733
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): OCLC
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Table of Contents

Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
New Features in Abridged Edition 14 xvii
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification xxiii
About the Introduction xxiii
Classification: What It Is and What It Does xxiii
History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification xxiii
Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification xxiv
Conceptual Framework xxiv
Notation xxvi
Principle of Hierarchy xxvi
Classifying with the DDC xxvii
Determining the Subject of a Work xxvii
Determining the Discipline of a Work xxviii
More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline xxviii
More Than One Discipline xxix
Table of Last Resort
xxx
How Abridged Edition 14 Is Arranged xxx
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables xxxi
Summaries xxxi
Entries xxxi
Notes xxxii
Number Building xxxvii
Citation and Preference Order xl
Citation Order xl
Preference Order xli
The Manual xli
Arrangement and Format of the Manual xli
The Relative Index xlii
Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index xliii
Interdisciplinary Numbers xliii
Terms Included in the Relative Index xliv
Terms Not Included in the Relative Index xliv
Options xlv
Close and Broad Classification xlvi
More Information xlvi
Glossary xlvii
Index to the Introduction and Glossary lvii
Manual
1(110)
Notes on Table Numbers
3(16)
Notes on Schedule Numbers
19(92)
Relocations and Discontinuations
111(4)
Relocations
111(3)
Discontinuations
114(1)
Tables
115(62)
Standard Subdivisions
117(11)
Geographic Areas, and Persons
128(38)
Subdivisions for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms
166(6)
Subdivisions of Individual Languages
172(5)
Summaries
177(12)
Schedules
189(630)
Computer science, information, general works
191(41)
Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology
232(26)
Religion
258(41)
Social sciences
299(180)
Language
479(17)
Natural sciences and mathematics
496(67)
Technology (Applied sciences)
563(101)
The arts Fine and decorative arts
664(80)
Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
744(19)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
763(56)
Relative Index
819(1)
Abbreviations Used in the Index
820(1)
A--Z
821

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