Ddc

about DDC and its features

1. Submitted To: Ms. Anjali Patil (Lecturer ) Submitted By: MR. Harsimran .S. Bhatia B.L. I.Sc. (I st sem ) Roll no. – B-04 Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC) Course-502 (Knowledge Organisation and processing(theory) SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Devi Ahilya Vishwavidhyalaya, Indore

2. CONTENT Introduction About Melvil Dewey. Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme. DDC History. All editions of DDC. Features of DDC. Reference.

3. INTRODUCTION Melvil Dewey devised the system in 1873 while he was a student at Amherst  College . First published in 1876. as “ A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library ”. It appeared in the form of a small book of 44 pages. The Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee (EPC) was established in 1937. In 1988 , ( OCLC) acquired the DDC. . Both the full and abridged editions are available in print as well as in electronic version.

4. Melvil Dewey Melvil Louis Kossuth Dewey Dewey was born in Adams Centre, New York Born in 10 December, 1851 Established the American Library Association in 1876 Co-founded and edited Library Journal Died 26 December, 1931 at age 80

5. Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme This classification system was created by Melvil Dewey and is used to coordinate materials on the same subject and related subjects making them easier to find on the shelves of the library. The Dewey Decimal number is the first line of what we refer to as a call number.

6. 10 major classes 000 Generalities 100 Philosophy and related disciplines 200 Religion 300 Social Science 400 Language 500 Pure Science 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) 700 The Arts 800 Literature 900 Geography and History

7. Each of the ten classes is broken down into ten divisions 510 Mathematics 520 Astronomy 530 Physics 540 Chemistry 550 Sciences of Earth and other world 560 Paleontology 570 Life Sciences 580 Botanical Sciences 590 Zoological Sciences

8. Each of those divisions is broken down into another ten more specific sections ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 591 Zoology 592 Invertebrates 593 Protozoa 594 Mollusa 595 Other Invertebrates (worms and insects) 596 Chordata 597 Cold – blooded vertebrates 598 Aves 599 Mammals

9. DDC HISTORY Full edition Publication year Abridged edition Publication year 1 st 1876 2 nd 1885 3 rd 1888 4 th 1891 5 th 1894 1st 1895 6 th 1899 7 th 1911 8 th 1913 2nd 1915 9 th 1915 10 th 1919 11 th 1922 3rd 1926 12 th 1927 4th 1929 13 th 1932 5th 1936 14 th 1942 6th 1945 15 th 1951 7th 1953 16 th 1958 8th 1959 17 th 1965 9th 1965 18 th 1971 10th 1971 19 th 1979 11th 1979 20 th 1989 12th 1990 21 st 1996 13th 1997 22 nd 2003 14th 2004 23 rd 2011 15th 2012

10. ALL EDITIONS OF DDC

11. DDC 23 rd – LATEST EDITION

12. Features of DDC Enumerative Scheme. Hierarchical Notation. Mnemonics. Updating policy. Facet analysis and synthesis. Pure notation. 13

13. Conclusion World’s most widely used library classification system More then 135 countries use DDC DDC numbers are featured in the national bibliographies of more then 60 countries DDC has been translated into over 30 languages E.g. Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek DDC is maintained in a national bibliographic agency , Library of Congress DDC’s basic classes are organized by disciplines or fields of study A subject may appear in more than one class

14. REFRENCE http://www.netugc.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/