Decimal Classification System
Decimal Classification System

Author: Sushma Gupta

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9788175330580

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The Dewey Decimal Classification System, popularly known as DC or DDC, was created by Melvil Dewey more than a century ago. Since then it has gone through constant changes and has grown from a 44 page booklet to four volumes. But its basic plan, notation and desire to serve librarianship has remained stable.

Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer
Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer

Author: Joan S. Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1136454004

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Can the Dewey Decimal System meet the needs of the rapidly changing information environment? Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer explores the Dewey Decimal System from a variety of perspectives, each of which peels away a bit of the “presentation layer”—the familiar linear notational sequence-to reveal the content and context offered by the DDS. Library professionals from around the word examine how the content and context offered by the DDS can evolve to meet the needs of the changing information environment, with a special focus on the impact of the Internet on current and future developments. Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer examines whether the Dewey Decimal System is a rigid structure best suited to a physical information environment or a polymorphic one that can be adapted to meet a variety of physical and virtual needs. This unique book reviews the 40-year history of the online use of classification systems, the development of the Relative Index over 22 editions of the DDC, recommendations to ensure the viability of the DDC in a time of mass digitization, using DDS in an environment where it hasn’t been used before, teaching the DDS, special issues related to the use of the DDS in Europe, North America, and Africa, and the future of online classification. Topics examined in Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer include: using the DDC as the browsing mechanism for resource discovery classification as an online cataloging tool classification as an online end-user tool browser behavior in a DDC-based Web service the role of the DDS in the ongoing HILT (High-Level Thesaurus) project using the DDS to organize Web resources localization and interoperability in knowledge organization mapping terminologies to classification systems the DeweyBrowser and much more Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer is an essential professional resource for librarians, information scientists, computer scientists, and metadata and Web services specialists.

Library Cataloguing and Classification Systems
Library Cataloguing and Classification Systems

Author: M.S. Ramalingam

Publisher: Gyan Publishing House

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9788178350042

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The book contains useful information on the technologies of cataloguing, evolution of cataloguing codes, structure of library catalogues etc., describing the characteristics of users, their information requirement and other related issues. It also contains a comparative, analytical and critical study that evaluates the works of classification systems. This book will constitute a meaningful contribution to contemporary literature in this crucial area. Students, scholars, academicians besides the professionals in the field, will find this book most useful.

Weaving Libraries into the Web
Weaving Libraries into the Web

Author: Jay Jordan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317986873

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The year 1997 found the members of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) cooperative in an expansive mood. More than 1,000 library leaders attended the OCLC President’s Luncheon in San Francisco, where they celebrated OCLC’s 30th anniversary. There were more than 25,000 libraries participating in the cooperative, including nearly 3,000 libraries in 62 countries outside the U.S., and the WorldCat database contained more than 37 million bibliographic records. Over the next ten years, the global digital library would indeed emerge, but in a form that few could have predicted. Against a backdrop of continuous technological change and the rapid growth of the Internet, the OCLC cooperative’s WorldCat database continued to grow and was a central theme of the past decade. As the chapters in this book show, OCLC’s chartered objectives of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing the rate of rising library costs continue to resonate among libraries and librarians, as the OCLC cooperative enters its fifth decade. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Subject Control in Online Catalogs
Subject Control in Online Catalogs

Author: Robert P Holley

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1990-01-23

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780866567930

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Is the quality of subject access significantly better with the online catalog than with the card catalogs? For many years, librarians have been discontent with the quality of subject access in card catalogs, and they hoped that the online catalog would offer significant improvements. This new book addresses this question from five different perspectives--research studies, opinion pieces from public and technical services librarians, special needs, the international perspective, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of previous work. By exploring the progress of the online catalog to date and making suggestions for future research, the contributors to Subject Control in Online Catalogs provide important reading for public services and technical services librarians, as well as systems librarians. In one this single volume, you will find research studies promising new paths for systems developments, descriptions of international developments that have vital implications for American subject access, and the valuable perspectives of innovative public and technical services librarians.