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Beyond Classification: Book Numbers

Author: M.P. Satija John Comaromi

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ISBN 8170001366
Year of Publication 1992
Binding HardBound
Pages 127
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Language English
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This book seeks to complement two major works on the subject published in the U.S.A.by devoting it self tochronological book numbers. It is mostly an ignored rival line to alphabetical book numbers, indeed an ignored subject. The first four chapters dwell on the theoretical and general problems of book numbers, indeed an ignored subject. the first four chapters dwell on the tehoretical and general problem of book numbers: their definition, nature , usefulness and history. The chapter on the debate over the usefulness of book numbers tries to give the readersa taste of the debate that followed their conceptionand immediate development. Chapter four catalogues advantages of chronological book numbers. The remaining four chapters dwell upon the four specific chronollgical book numbering system. The desription of each system is prefaced by a brief life sketch of the inventor. Ranganathan's system has been fully but concsely explained. The other systems are by W.S.Biscoe, J. D. Brown, Fremont Rider and W.S. Rider and W.S. Merrill. There are twoappendices: one onthe chronology of book numbers (1873-1992), and another an almost exhaustive bibliography on the subject. Its aim is to invite the attention of scholars to a neglected part of our heritage.

Dedication preface Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Book Numbers, Introduction
Chapter 2: Debate over the Usefulness of Book Numbers
Chapter 3: History of Book Numbers
Chapter 4: Chronological book Numbers
Chapter 5: Biscoe's Chronological Book Numbers
Chapter 6: Brown's Extended Date Table
Chapter 7: Colon Book Numbers
Chapter 8: Reder's Book Numbers
Chapter 9: Merrill's Book Numbers


Appendices: 1 Chronology of Book Numbers
2. Bibliography of Book Numbers

Author Index to the Bibliogaphy

Subject Index

 


John Phillop Compromise earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of
Michigan for his work on the history of the University of Michigan for his work
on the history of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) . He is now a
distinguished alumni of the University of Michigan. He was principal
investigator of the DDC survey conducted in the USA and Canada (1975) and
Chairman of the Editorial Policy Committee of the DDC (1976-1979). From March
1980 till his death in 1991 he remained Chief Editor of the DDC at the Library
of Congress. Dr. Compromise taught for thirteen years in the library schools of
the Universities of Oregon, Michigan, Maryland, Western Michigan and California
at Los Angeles. He traveled widely conducting workshops on the DDC and
supervising the work on its language editions. The highly successful 20th
edition of the DDC ws prepared under his editorial supervision. Mohinder Partap
Satija, who earned his Ph. D. on Ranganathanstudies, is currently on the
teaching faculty of the Guru Nanak Dev University. A librarian of 20 years
experience, he is the author of about a dozen professional books and a score of
papers published in Indian foreigh library journals. Dr. Datija is life member
of the Indian Library association, the Indian Association of Teachers of Library
& Information Science. He is Indian co-ordinator of the International Society
for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO), West Germany. He is on the Editorial Board of
the Information Management Report (Elsevier, the UK).


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