Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931.
Abridged Dewey decimal classification and relative index / devised by Melvil Dewey. - Ed. 15 / edited by Joan S. Mitchell ... [et al.]. - Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2012. - lxvii, 1228 p. ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee -- Acknowledgments -- New features in Abridged Edition 15 -- Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification: About the Introduction -- Classification: What it is and what it does -- History, current use, and development of the Dewey Decimal Classification -- Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification: Conceptual framework -- Notation -- Principle of Hierarchy -- Classifying with the DDC: Determining the subject of a work -- Determining the discipline of a work -- More than one subject in the same discipline -- More than one discipline -- Table of last resort -- How Abridged Edition 15 is arranged -- Key features of the Schedules and Tables: Summaries -- Entries -- Notes -- Number building -- Citation and preference order: Citation order -- Preference order -- Manual: Arrangement and format of the manual -- Relative Index: Arrangement and format of the Relative Index -- Interdisciplinary numbers -- Terms included in the Relative Index -- Terms not included in the Relative Index -- Options -- Close and broad classification -- More information -- Glossary -- Index to the Introduction and Glossary -- Manual: Notes on Table Numbers -- Notes on Schedule Numbers -- Relocations and Discontinuations: Relocations -- Discontinuations -- Reused numbers -- Tables: Standard Subdivisions -- Geographic areas, and biography -- Subdivisions for individual literatures, for specific literary forms -- Subdivisions of individual languages and language families -- Summaries -- Schedules: 000 Computer science, information, general works -- 100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology -- 200 Religion -- 300 Social sciences -- 400 Language -- 500 Natural sciences and mathematics -- 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) -- 700 The arts -- 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric -- 900 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines -- Relative Index: Abbreviations used in the index -- A-Z.
An abridgment of Edition 23 of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for organizing knowledge represented in any form, including books, documents, and electronic records.
9780910608817 (alk. paper) 0910608814 (alk. paper)
2011051152
Classification, Dewey decimal.
Z696 / D54 2012
025.4/31
Abridged Dewey decimal classification and relative index / devised by Melvil Dewey. - Ed. 15 / edited by Joan S. Mitchell ... [et al.]. - Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2012. - lxvii, 1228 p. ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee -- Acknowledgments -- New features in Abridged Edition 15 -- Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification: About the Introduction -- Classification: What it is and what it does -- History, current use, and development of the Dewey Decimal Classification -- Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification: Conceptual framework -- Notation -- Principle of Hierarchy -- Classifying with the DDC: Determining the subject of a work -- Determining the discipline of a work -- More than one subject in the same discipline -- More than one discipline -- Table of last resort -- How Abridged Edition 15 is arranged -- Key features of the Schedules and Tables: Summaries -- Entries -- Notes -- Number building -- Citation and preference order: Citation order -- Preference order -- Manual: Arrangement and format of the manual -- Relative Index: Arrangement and format of the Relative Index -- Interdisciplinary numbers -- Terms included in the Relative Index -- Terms not included in the Relative Index -- Options -- Close and broad classification -- More information -- Glossary -- Index to the Introduction and Glossary -- Manual: Notes on Table Numbers -- Notes on Schedule Numbers -- Relocations and Discontinuations: Relocations -- Discontinuations -- Reused numbers -- Tables: Standard Subdivisions -- Geographic areas, and biography -- Subdivisions for individual literatures, for specific literary forms -- Subdivisions of individual languages and language families -- Summaries -- Schedules: 000 Computer science, information, general works -- 100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology -- 200 Religion -- 300 Social sciences -- 400 Language -- 500 Natural sciences and mathematics -- 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) -- 700 The arts -- 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric -- 900 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines -- Relative Index: Abbreviations used in the index -- A-Z.
An abridgment of Edition 23 of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for organizing knowledge represented in any form, including books, documents, and electronic records.
9780910608817 (alk. paper) 0910608814 (alk. paper)
2011051152
Classification, Dewey decimal.
Z696 / D54 2012
025.4/31
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