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    A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library
    A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library
    A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library
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    A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library

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      A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library - Melvil Dewey

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      Title: A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library [Dewey Decimal Classification]

      Author: Melvil Dewey

      Release Date: June 4, 2004 [EBook #12513]

      Language: English

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      DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION

      CENTENNIAL 1876-1976

      Facsimile reprinted

      by

      Forest Press Division

      Lake Placid Educational Foundation

      Printed and Bound Kingsport Press, Inc. KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE

      A

      CLASSIFICATION

      AND

      SUBJECT INDEX

      FOR

      CATALOGUING AND ARRANGING

      THE

      BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

      OF A

      LIBRARY.

      AMHERST, MASS.

      1876.

      COPYRIGHTED

      1876

      MELVIL DEWEY

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      CLASSES

      DIVISIONS

      SUBJECT INDEX

      EXPLANATIONS

      SUBJECT CATALOGUE

      PREFACE

      The plan of the following Classification and Index was developed early in 1873. It was the result of several months' study of library economy as found in some hundreds of books and pamphlets, and in over fifty personal visits to various American libraries. In this study, the author became convinced that the usefulness of these libraries might be greatly increased without additional expenditure. Three years practical use of the system here explained, leads him to believe that it will accomplish this result; for with its aid, the catalogues, shelf lists, indexes, and cross-references essential to this increased usefulness, can be made more economically than by any other method which he has been able to find. The system was devised for cataloguing and indexing purposes, but it was found on trial to be equally valuable for numbering and arranging books and pamphlets on the shelves.

      The library is first divided into nine special libraries which are called Classes. These Classes are Philosophy, Theology, &c., and are numbered with the nine digits. Thus Class 9 is the Library of History; Class 7, the Library of Fine Art; Class 2, the Library of Theology. These special libraries or Classes are then considered independently, and each one is separated again into nine special Divisions of the main subject. These Divisions are numbered from 1 to 9 as were the Classes. Thus 59 is the 9th Division (Zoology) of the 5th Class (Natural Science). A final division is then made by separating each of these Divisions into nine Sections which are numbered in the same way, with the nine digits. Thus 513 is the 3d Section (Geometry) of the 1st Division (Mathematics) of the 5th Class (Natural Science). This number, giving Class, Division, and Section, is called the Classification or Class Number, and is applied to every book or pamphlet belonging to the library. All the Geometries are thus numbered 513, all the Mineralogies 549, and so throughout the library, all the books on any given subject bear the number of that subject in the scheme. Where a 0 occurs in a class number, it has its normal zero power. Thus, a book numbered 510, is Class 5, Division 1, but no Section. This signifies that the book treats of the Division 51 (Mathematics) in general, and is not limited to any one Section, as is the Geometry, marked 513. If marked 500, it would indicate a treatise on Science in general, limited to no Division. A zero occurring in the first place would in the same way show that the book is limited to no Class. The classification is mainly made by subjects or content regardless of form; but it is found practically useful to make an additional distinction in these general treatises, according to the form of treatment adopted. Thus, in Science we have a large number of books treating of Science in general, and so having a 0 for the Division number. These books are then divided into Sections, as are those of the other Classes according to the form they have taken on. We have the Philosophy and History of Science, Scientific Compends, Dictionaries, Essays, Periodicals, Societies, Education, and Travels,--all having the common subject, NATURAL SCIENCE, but treating it in these varied forms. These form distinctions are introduced here because the number of general works is large, and the numerals allow of this division, without extra labor for the numbers from 501 to 509 would otherwise be unused. They apply only to the general treatises, which, without them, would have a class number ending with two zeros. A Dictionary of Mathematics is 510, not 503, for every book is assigned to the most specific head that will contain it, so that 503 is limited to Dictionaries or Cyclopedias of Science in general. In the same way

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