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Abridged Dewey decimal classification and relative index
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- Summary
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An abridgment of Edition 22 of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for organizing knowledge represented in any form, including books, documents, and electronic records.
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- Creator
- devised by Melvil Dewey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Ed. 14 / [edited by Joan S. Mitchell ... [and others]
- Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2004
- Physical Details
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- lix, 1050 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780910608732, 0910608733
- OCLC
- ocm53021498
- Includes index.
- Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee -- Preface and acknowledgments -- New features in Abridged Edition 14 -- Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification: About the Introduction -- Classification: What it is and what it does -- History, current use, and development of the Dewey Decimal Classification -- Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification: Conceptual framework -- Notation -- Principle of Hierarchy -- Classifying with the DDC: Determining the subject of a work -- Determining the discipline of a work -- More than one subject in the same discipline -- More than one discipline -- Table of last resort -- How Abridged Edition 14 is arranged -- Key features of the Schedules and Tables: Summaries -- Entries -- Notes -- Number building -- Citation and preference order: Citation order -- Preference order -- Manual: Arrangement and format of the manual -- Relative Index: Arrangement and format of the Relative Index -- Interdisciplinary numbers -- Terms included in the Relative Index -- Terms not included in the Relative Index -- Options -- Close and broad classification -- More information -- Glossary -- Index to the Introduction and Glossary -- Manual: Notes on Table Numbers -- Notes on Schedule Numbers -- Relocations and Discontinuations: Relocations -- Discontinuations -- Tables: Standard Subdivisions -- Geographic Areas, and persons -- Subdivisions for individual literatures, for specific literary forms -- Subdivisions of individual languages -- Summaries -- Schedules: 000 Computer science, information, general works -- 100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology -- 200 Religion -- 300 Social sciences -- 400 Language -- 500 Natural sciences and mathematics -- 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) -- 700 The arts Fine and Decorative Arts -- 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric -- 900 History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines -- Relative Index: Abbreviations used in the Index -- A-Z