Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index Volume 1 Introduction ⏹ Tables

Publisher’s Foreword	xi
Preface by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
New Features in Edition 20	xix
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxv
About the Introduction	xxv
Classification: What It Is and What It Does	xxv
History and Current Use of the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxvi
Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification	xxvi
Conceptual Framework	xxvi
Notation	xxvii
Principle of Hierarchy	xxviii
Classifying with the DDC	xxix
Determining the Subject of a Work	xxix
Determining the Discipline for a Work	Xxxi
More Than One Subject	xxxi
More Than One Discipline	xxxi
When All Else Fails	xxxii
How DDC 20 Is Arranged	xxxiii
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables	xxxiii
Summaries	xxxiii
Entries	xxxiv
Notes	xxxv
Number Building	xl
Number Building: Citation and Precedence Order	xliii
Citation Order	xliii
Precedence Order	xliii
The Relative Index	xliv
How to Use the Relative Index	xlv
Format and Arrangement of the Relative Index	xlv
Order in Which Numbers Are Displayed	xlvi
Interdisciplinary Numbers	xlvi
Terms Included in the Relative Index	xlviii
Terms Not Included in the Relative Index	xlviii
Options	xIviii
Close and Broad Classification	xlix
Book Numbers	xlix
Selected Bibliography	li
Glossary	li
Index to the Introduction and Glossary	lix
Publishing History of the Dewey Decimal Classification	lxi
Tables	1
Use of the Tables	2
Table 1. Standard Subdivisions	3
Table 2. Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Persons	25
Table 3. Subdivisions for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms	389
Table 3-A. Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors	389
Table 3-B. Subdivisions for Works by or about More than One Author	394
Table 3-C. Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3-B and in 808-809	409
Table 4. Subdivisions of Individual Languages	415
Table 5. Racial, Ethnic, National Groups	421
Table 6. Languages	438
Table 7. Groups of Persons	457
Relocations and Reductions	479
Comparative Tables	496
Music	496
British Columbia	505
Equivalence Tables	506
Music	306
British Columbia	514