Library classification trends in the 21st century

This paper analyses the literature of classification published during 2000 to 2009 and finds that there is sustainability in the growth of literature on classification in the first decade of the 21st century. It traces the pattern in scattering of literature on classification in library and information science (LIS) journals and concludes that the literature adheres to the Bradford’s law of scattering. It produces rank list of journals publishing the literature on classification and identifies authorship patterns and the prominent writers in classification. The research finds that the Indian LIS writers have shown sustained interest in classification domain.

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 2010

This volume contains revised selected papers from plenary and invited as well as contributed sessions at the 11th Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) in combination with the 33rd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society-Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl), organized by the Faculty of Business Management and Economics at the Technische Universität Dresden in March 2009. The theme of the conference was "Classification as a Tool for Research." The conference encompassed 290 presentations in 100 sessions, including 11 plenary talks and 2 workshops. Moreover, five tutorials took place before the conference. With 357 attendees from 58 countries, the conference provided a very attractive interdisciplinary international forum for discussion and mutual exchange of knowledge. The chapters in this volume were selected in a second reviewing process after the conference. From the remaining 120 submitted papers, 90 papers were accepted for this volume. In addition to the fundamental methodological areas of Classification and Data Analysis, the volume contains many chapters from a wide range of topics representing typical applications of classification and data analysis methods in Archaeology and Spatial Science, Bio-Sciences, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Banking, Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance and Engineering. The editors would like to thank the session organizers for supporting the spread of information about the conference, and for inviting speakers, all reviewers for their timely reports, and Irene Barrios-Kezic and Martina Bihn of Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, for their support and dedication to the production of this volume. Moreover, IFCS and GfKl want to thank the Local Organizing Committee,

International Journal of Research in Library Science, 2023

The concept book classification is based on the concept classification as found in philosophy or logic. The traditional classification concept was customized by the intellect of many stalwart of library science. Many eminent persons were involved in this process .Aristotle’s traditional concepts; classical Indian philosophical thoughts of classification were customized for practical book classification. W C B Sayers, Melvil Dewey and S R Ranganathan are relevant in this regard. Sayers devised the grammar of library classification. Dewey opened the gateway of practical classification by devising the decimal system. S R Ranganathan has put the subject on a new dimension by introducing many concepts in theoretical and practical areas. The study aims to recollect the contributions library science stalwarts in library classificatio

Library classification is a system which could classify both printed and non-printed sources in a library or information center with the prime intension of organizing those sources in a most helpful order to assist library users and library staff to find and to locate them efficiently and effectively. The intension of this paper is to study the different steps related to design and construction of a library classification system. A classificationist or an editorial committee of a library classification system has the responsibility and the ownership of design, construction and maintenance of a system. The objectives of this study are:

Library Classification can also be considered to be a process of putting books and other reading material on a subject in a logical sequence on the shelf, which could be of immense help to the users. It requires an adept thorough study and practice in the technique of classification of books, knowledge of the details and handling of the scheme of classification. A close familiarity with the broad spectrum of learning, its growth and the interrelationship of various components is also necessary. A good selection of books is the basis towards a good library collection and proper classification is fundamental in organizing collection and in the retrieval of specific books for use by the users. Classification is one of the most important steps in the organization of the libraries and has been aptly called the “Foundation of Librarianship.”3

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According to this author, library classification should be viewed in its broader context of the classification of knowledge-the orderly arrangement of thoughts and things for convenient reference. This has been an activity of man since his earliest days, when primitive man first classified animals and plants in the interest of food. Philosophers, including Aristotle and Ros-or Bacon, have always been concerned with the arrangement, not only of objects, but of knowledge, into definable catagories. Library classification-practical systems for the arrangement of books on shelves-has, also existed since ancient times. Librarians have relied, in their arrangements, on the knowledge schemes created by philosophers. As knowledge, and the number of books, have increased, new library schemes have been deveioped. The 19th Century saw-many such schemes, notably the Dewey system. Because of the dynamic nature of knowledge itself, library classification schemes are unlikely ever to be stabilized. At present, librarians are attempting to fill the gaps by creating special systems for individual subjects such as business and medicine. (SL)

The present paper lays emphasis over the need and importance of Library classification in the ICT era. ICT application is no exception to libraries and we can see it has already revolutionized library services and activities to a significant way. Any classification scheme we apply in any type of library acts as a backbone of library services. It not just helps in organizing information and knowledge but also in its timely retrieval. In the present study we have tried to highlight the need and importance of classifying documents in the technological era, as how with and without it library will suffer in its recourse to organize and retrieve knowledge and information. concerning partnerships with faculty members,database vendors to support the development of library staff in India. One purpose of this work was to develop strategies that could also be applied elsewhere in India