| Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee |
|
xi | |
| Acknowledgments |
|
xv | |
| New Features in Edition 23 |
|
xxi | |
| Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification |
|
xliii | |
| About the Introduction |
|
xliii | |
| Classification: What It Is and What It Does |
|
xliii | |
| History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification |
|
xliii | |
| Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification |
|
xliv | |
| Conceptual Framework |
|
xliv | |
| Notation |
|
xlvi | |
| Principle of Hierarchy |
|
xlvi | |
| Classifying with the DDC |
|
xlvii | |
| Determining the Subject of a Work |
|
xlvii | |
| Determining the Discipline of a Work |
|
xlviii | |
| More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline |
|
xlviii | |
| More Than One Discipline |
|
xlix | |
|
|
|
l | |
| How DDC 23 Is Arranged |
|
li | |
| Key Features of the Schedules and Tables |
|
li | |
| Summaries |
|
li | |
| Entries |
|
lii | |
| Notes |
|
liii | |
| Number Building |
|
lviii | |
| Citation and Preference Order |
|
lxiv | |
| Citation Order |
|
lxiv | |
| Preference Order |
|
lxiv | |
| The Manual |
|
lxvi | |
| Arrangement and Format of the Manual |
|
lxvi | |
| The Relative Index |
|
lxvii | |
| Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index |
|
lxvii | |
| Interdisciplinary Numbers |
|
lxviii | |
| Terms Included in the Relative Index |
|
lxix | |
| Terms Not Included in the Relative Index |
|
lxx | |
| Options |
|
lxx | |
| Close and Broad Classification |
|
lxxi | |
| More Information |
|
lxxi | |
| Glossary |
|
lxxiii | |
| Index to the Introduction and Glossary |
|
lxxxiii | |
|
|
|
1 | (176) |
|
|
|
3 | (40) |
|
Notes on Schedule Numbers |
|
|
43 | (134) |
|
|
|
177 | (586) |
|
Table 1 Standard Subdivisions |
|
|
179 | (31) |
|
Table 2 Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography |
|
|
210 | (427) |
|
Table 3 Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms |
|
|
637 | (41) |
|
Table 3A Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors |
|
|
638 | (6) |
|
Table 3B Subdivisions for Works by or about More than One Author |
|
|
644 | (21) |
|
Table 3C Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809 |
|
|
665 | (13) |
|
Table 4 Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Language Families |
|
|
678 | (13) |
|
Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups |
|
|
691 | (36) |
|
|
|
727 | (36) |
|
Relocations and Discontinuations |
|
|
763 | (10) |
|
|
|
763 | (7) |
|
|
|
770 | |
| Comparative Table |
|
773 | (3) |
| Equivalence Tables |
|
776 | (3) |
| Reused Numbers |
|
779 | |
| Summaries |
|
v | |
|
|
|
1 | (1) |
|
000 Computer science, information, general works |
|
|
3 | (97) |
|
100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology |
|
|
100 | (67) |
|
|
|
167 | (158) |
|
|
|
325 | (602) |
|
|
|
927 | (58) |
|
500 Natural sciences and mathematics |
|
|
985 | |
|
|
|
1 | (1) |
|
600 Technology (Applied sciences) |
|
|
3 | (527) |
|
|
|
530 | (239) |
|
800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric |
|
|
769 | (91) |
|
900 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
|
|
860 | |
| Relative Index |
|
1 | (2) |
| Abbreviations Used in the Index |
|
3 | (2) |
| A-Z |
|
5 | |
