Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index [23rd edition]

✍ Scribed by Melvil Dewey

• Publisher: OCLC
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 868
• Edition: Ed. 23 /
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
New features in 23rd Edition
Introduction to the DDC
Classification: What it is and what it does
History, use and development of DDC
Overview of DDC
Classifying with the DDC
How DDC 23 is arranged
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables
Number Building
Citation and Preference Order
The Manual
The Relative Index
Options
Close and Broad Classification
More Information
Glossary
Index to Introduction and Glossary
Manual
Notes on Table Numbers
Notes on Schedules Numbers
Tables
Table 1: Standard Subdivisions
Table 2: Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography
Table 3: Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for specific Literary forms
Table 3A: Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors
Table 3B: Subdivisions for Works by or about More than one Author
Table 3C: Notation to be added where instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809
Table 4: Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Languages Families
Table 5: Ethnic and National Groups
Table 6: Languages
Relocations and Discontinuations
Equivalence Tables
Reused Numbers
Back Cover