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Classification

The document discusses the concept of library classification, which involves grouping similar entities and arranging them systematically for effective organization. It outlines various classification schemes, including DDC, UDC, and others, along with their origins and purposes. Additionally, it explains the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers in classification processes.

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Classification

The document discusses the concept of library classification, which involves grouping similar entities and arranging them systematically for effective organization. It outlines various classification schemes, including DDC, UDC, and others, along with their origins and purposes. Additionally, it explains the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers in classification processes.

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College of Community and

Rural Development

Department of Library and


Information Science

Classification
&
Cataloging
Classification

Derived from “Latin” word “Classic”


Meaning Process of grouping

Putting together (un) like entities


Arrangements of ideas /objects in a
systematic order
Library Classification
Arrangement of documents in the most helpful and
permanent order
To classify the subjects of the documents.
Classification is a process of grouping like entities to
gather and separating unlike entities.
Definitions
Arrangement of books on shelves or description of
them in the manner which is most helpful to those
who read
Classification in its simplest statement is, the
putting together of similar things or more fully
described, it is the arranging of things according
to likeness and unlikeness
Numbers

Cardinal numbers Used for counting purpose


Ordinal numbers Used for arranging or ordering
things
(Library classification uses
ordinal numbers)

Notation Ordered serial of symbols representing terms


Pure - DDC
Mixed - UDC, CC
Schemes of Library Classification
SNo Scheme Division Year

1 DDC Melvil Dewey 1876


2 Expansive CA Cutter 1891
Paul Otlet
4 UDC Henry La Fontain + 1905
FID
5 Subject J D Brown 1906
6 Colon S R Ranganathan 1933
7 Bibliographic H E Bliss 1935
9 International Rider 1965
12 Standard Classification

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