A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. [By M. Dewey.] |
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Page 8 - The plan of the St. Louis Public School Library, and that of the Apprentices' Library of New York, which in some respects resemble his own, were not seen till all the essential features were decided upon, though not given to the public. In filling the nine classes of the scheme the inverted Baconian arrangement of the St. Louis Library has been followed.
Page 40 - English and French surnames beginning with a prefix (except the French de and d') are to be recorded under the prefix; in other languages, under the word following.
Page 8 - In his varied reading, correspondence, and conversation on the subject, the author doubtless received suggestions and gained ideas which it is now impossible for him to acknowledge. Perhaps the most fruitful source of ideas was the Nuovo Sistema di Catalogo Bibliografico Generale of Natale Battezzati, of Milan.
Page 8 - ... frequently rearranjed and recatalogd, a procedure too expensiv even for very welthy libraries. Relativ sistem clas and book numbers remain unchanjed thru all chanjes of shelving, bildings or order of clases. Amung hundreds of points raizd by librarians as to its practical workings and usefulness, the only one in which it was not shown to be equal or superior to erlier sistems was that in this relativ location a book which this year stands, eg at the end of a certain shelf, may not be on that...
Page 2 - Theoretically, the division of every subject into just nine heads is absurd. Practically, it is desirable that the classification be as minute as possible without the use of additional figures, and the decimal principle on which our scheme hinges allows nine divisions as readily as a less number. This principle has proved wholly satisfactory in practice though it appears to destroy proper co-ordination in some places.
Page 5 - Not only are all the books on the subject sought found together, but the most nearly allied subjects precede and follow, they in turn being preceded and followd by other allied subjects as far as practicable. Readers not having access to the shelves find short titles arranged in the same order in the shelf list, and full titles, imprints, subject and cross references, notes, etc., in the subject catalog. Parts of sets, and books on the same or allied...
Page 2 - In all the work, philosophical theory and accuracy have been made to yield to practical usefulness. The impossibility of making a satisfactory classification of all knowledge as preserved in books, has been appreciated from the first, and nothing of the kind attempted. Theoretical harmony and exactness has been repeatedly sacrificed to the practical requirements of the library or to the convenience of the department in the college.
Page 39 - First word (not an article or serial number) of the titles of periodicals and of anonymous books, the names of whose authors are not known. And a motto or the designation of a series may be neglected when it begins a title, and the entry may be made under the first word of the real title following.
Page 40 - MISCELLANEOUS. A single dash or indent indicates the omission of the preceding heading; a subsequent dash or indent indicates the omission of a subordinate heading, or of a title. A dash connecting numbers signifies to and including; following a number it signifies continuation.
Page 2 - Wherever practicable the heads have been so arranged that each subject is preceded and followed by...