Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index [23rd edition]

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
New features in 23rd Edition
Introduction to the DDC
	Classification: What it is and what it does
	History, use and development of DDC
	Overview of DDC
	Classifying with the DDC
	How DDC 23 is arranged
	Key Features of the Schedules and Tables
	Number Building
	Citation and Preference Order
	The Manual
	The Relative Index
	Options
	Close and Broad Classification
	More Information
	Glossary
	Index to Introduction and Glossary
Manual
	Notes on Table Numbers
	Notes on Schedules Numbers
Tables
	Table 1: Standard Subdivisions
	Table 2: Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography
	Table 3: Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for specific Literary forms
		Table 3A: Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors
		Table 3B: Subdivisions for Works by or about More than one Author
		Table 3C: Notation to be added where instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809
	Table 4: Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Languages Families
	Table 5: Ethnic and National Groups
	Table 6: Languages
Relocations and Discontinuations
Equivalence Tables
Reused Numbers
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