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A Handbook of History, Theory and Practice of the Dewey Decimal Classification System
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Dewey Decimal Classification

Chapter 2: Governance and Revision of the DDC

Chapter 3: Introduction to the Text

Chapter 4: Basic Plan and Structure

Chapter 5: Subject Analysis and Locating Class Numbers

Chapter 6: Tables and Rules for Precedence and Citation Order

Chapter 7: Number Building

Chapter 8: Use of Table 1 Standard Subdivisions

Chapter 9: Use of Table 2 Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography

Chapter 10: Use of Table 4 Subdivisions of Individual Languages, and Table 6 Languages

Chapter 11: Use of Table 3 Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms

Chapter 12: Use of Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups

Chapter 13: Multiple Synthesis: Deeper Subject Analysis

Chapter 14: Classification of General Statistics, Law, Geology, Geography, and History

Chapter 15: Using the Relative Index

Chapter 16: WebDewey

Chapter 17: Options and Local Adaptations

Chapter 18: Current Developments in the DDC and Future Trends

Appendix 1 A Broad Chronology of the DDC, 18511-–2022

Appendix 2 History of Other Versions of the DDC

Appendix 3 Table of DDC Editors

Appendix 4 Editors of the DDC

Appendix 5 Takeaways

Further resources

About the Author

Professor M. P. Satija is an Emeritus fellow in the Department of Library & Information Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, India. In his long professional career he has written extensively on library classification systems, especially the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Colon Classification. He has authored textbooks on every edition of the DDC since the 19th (1979). He has collaborated with three successive editors of the DDC and his works have been translated in many European, and Asian languages. Dr Satija serves on the editorial boards of many international journals including the ISKO journal Knowledge Organization, and is a member of the UDC Consortium, The Hague.

Alex Kyrios is the Senior Editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification at OCLC, based out of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC USA. He is responsible for overseeing the continuous updating and revision of the classification, and works with partners and volunteers around the world to do so. Previously, he was a cataloguer at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. and the University of Idaho. He has an M.S. in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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