After an historical review of the Classification, the author of this book describes and illustrates the changes that have been made to the 21st edition. The manual provides a review of how DDC is updated and gives detailed lists of such changes in each table and class. Examples and exercises assist the user in fully understanding the Classification's use, down to the book number. In addition, all changes that appear in the 20th Dewey and brief descriptions of their application are included to guide users in applying the Classification in the cataloguing process.
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Every library buys material requiring classification "from scratch" without help from CIP, OCLC, etc. In many libraries, the task falls to a nonspecialist who dreads facing Dewey alone. Scott, a former head of SANAD Support Technologies Inc.'s technical services division and now a school library media specialist, furnishes relief with this manual, covering the Dewey Decimal Classification's (DDC) history, principles, and content. Ten chapters cover the ten main classes, 000s-900s, and include exercises, preceded by four chapters on history and current status, general aspects, principles of number building, and the tables. A final chapter explaining book numbers is very useful since many catalogers need help in turning DDC numbers into full shelf addresses. A bibliography, answers to the exercises, and an index complete the book. Scott highlights features of the 21st edition that differ from previous ones, assuming most readers need special help here. Other manuals exist?the printed DDC has one; Lois M. Chan and others did one for Forest Press (Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide, 1996. 2d ed.); there is Pat Sifton's Workbook for DDC 21 (Canadian Library Association, 1998); and every cataloging textbook has a chapter on it?but Scott moves a student or novice through DDC more slowly and completely than the cataloging texts, her language is simpler and more understandable than DDC's guides, and the Canadian text is more of a workbook. Scott's manual is recommended for formal library school courses and on-the-job training.?Sheila S. Intner, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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MONA L. SCOTT, School Library Media Specialist, North Stafford High School, Stafford, Virginia and former Head of Technical Services, SANAD, Inc.
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