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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Mona L. Scott is head of the Joint Personnel Recovery Library at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. She was previously head of technical services at the Bureau of the Census Library, and at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Library. Her published work includes Libraries Unlimited's Conversion Tables: LC-Dewey, Dewey-LC and Conversion Tables: Volume 3 Subject HeadingsLC and Dewey .
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Library Journal Review
Every library buys material requiring classification "from scratch" without help from CIP, OCLC, etc. In many libraries, the task falls to a nonspecialist who dreads facing Dewey alone. Scott, a former head of SANAD Support Technologies Inc.'s technical services division and now a school library media specialist, furnishes relief with this manual, covering the Dewey Decimal Classification's (DDC) history, principles, and content. Ten chapters cover the ten main classes, 000s-900s, and include exercises, preceded by four chapters on history and current status, general aspects, principles of number building, and the tables. A final chapter explaining book numbers is very useful since many catalogers need help in turning DDC numbers into full shelf addresses. A bibliography, answers to the exercises, and an index complete the book. Scott highlights features of the 21st edition that differ from previous ones, assuming most readers need special help here. Other manuals existthe printed DDC has one; Lois M. Chan and others did one for Forest Press (Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide, 1996. 2d ed.); there is Pat Sifton's Workbook for DDC 21 (Canadian Library Association, 1998); and every cataloging textbook has a chapter on itbut Scott moves a student or novice through DDC more slowly and completely than the cataloging texts, her language is simpler and more understandable than DDC's guides, and the Canadian text is more of a workbook. Scott's manual is recommended for formal library school courses and on-the-job training.Sheila S. Intner, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of 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 |
