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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)O f the three systems named in the title of this paper, the first is familiar to everyone, even outside the profession of librarianship; the second is much less well known; and the last one is probably still a total ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)Despite the title of this paper, I do not intend to make a detailed analysis of the subject content of recent editions of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Instead, I shall concentrate on certain classificatory ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)At a point halfway through this institute and at the commencement of the second evening session, I am appalled at the problem of making my contribution intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining. I cannot regard ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)This paper concerns the British Library; by now it is well known that the British Library consists of more than one large library. One of its components, the British Museum Library, is among the largest in the world; ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)Melvil Dewey was born on December 10, 1851 on the tenth day of the tenth month.* To this fact I attribute the reason why Dewey conceived his idea of using Arabic numerals decimally to mark the subjects of books. I call ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)Not the least of the important events in library history occuring in 1876 was the appearance of a (then) anonymous publication entitled: A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloging and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)For one hundred years in claim and counterclaim we have developed what have seemed at times to be highly diverse and divergent lines of thought in the theory of library classification. However, I believe not only that ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)It strikes me as an interesting circumstance that I have been given the opportunity to speak about the relationship between the Library of Congress classification (LCC) and the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) on November ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)One hundred years ago, in 1876, Melvil Dewey anonymously published the first edition of his classification system. Forest Press, publisher of the Dewey Decimal Classification since 1931, could think of no more suitable ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)It always seems befitting that the last speaker at a conference should gaze at a crystal ball and predict the future of the subject that has been discussed; I feel I should quote Confucius by saying that I do not ...
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(Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)On first reading the list of speakers proposed for this institute, I became aware of being rather the "odd man out" for two reasons. Firstly, I was asked to present a paper on PRECIS which is very much a verbal indexing ...
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Summary of a Survey of the Use of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the United States and Canada (Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1975)ithin the last ten years, three studies have been performed dealing with the use of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) outside the North American continent. To date, there has not been a similar survey aimed at assessing ...
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