TY  - GEN
AU  - Satija, M.P
TI  - The Theory and practice of the Dewey Decimal classification system
SN  - 978-1843347385
U1  - 025.431 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Chandos Publishing
KW  - geographical areas
KW  - Dewey Decimal
KW  - Classification
N1  - 
1. A brief history of the Dewey Decimal Classification
2. Governance and revision of the DDC
3. Introduction to the text in four volumes
4. Basic plan and structure
5. Subject analysis and locating class numbers
6. Tables and rules for precedence of classes
7. Number-building
8. Use of Table 1 : standard subdivisions
9. Use of Table 2 : geographical areas, historical periods and persons
10. Use of Table 3 : subdivisions for the arts, individual literatures and for literary forms
11. Use of Table 4 and Table 6 : subdivisions of individual languages and their language families
12. Use of Table 5 : ethnic and national groups
13. Multiple synthesis
14. Using the relative index
ER  -