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DDC Readymade

Author: B. K. Sen

Rs. 1675

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ISBN 9788170005209
Year of Publication 2008
Binding HardBound
Pages 782
Edition
Language English
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The book provides around 15,000 readymade class numbers relating to Indian
subjects and English language and literature. It has covered four Indic
religions, namely Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. For each of these
religions class numbers for around fifty subdivisions of each of the impotent
South Asian Languages like Assamese, Bengali, English Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi , Sanskrit Sindhi, Sinhalese, Tamil
Telugu and Urdu have been provided. he numbers for other South Asian languages
noticed in DDC have also been included. For literature of each of the
aforementioned languages the class numbers for around 450 subdivisions have been
provided. Around 750 class cumbers have been provided for English language and
literature. More than 250 class numbers have been provided under the heading
History including all the periods for such subjects as Architecture,
Conservation of resources, Cultural contact, Economic development, Economic
geography, Elections, Elementary educational, Fauna, Flora, Folk, dancing, Folk
literature, Folk supply, General clubs, Geography Geology, Higher education,
Journalism, Local public debt, Local taxes, Museums, Newspapers, Organizations,
Painting and paintings Political situation, Postal organizations, Public
administration, Public finance, Public policy on education, Revenue, Secondary
education, Social problems/social welfare, Social welfare Problems and services,
State taxes, Statistics, Strikes, and so on with more than 40 geographical
subdivisions. In addition to this, more than a dozen class number have been
provided for all the Indian states and union territories. Necessary instructions
have been given as to how class numbers are to be located, and expanded when
necessary.



Introduction

Explanatory Notes

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Mr. Bimal Kanti Sen (b.2nd August 1938) graduated in Science with Distinction
and obtained his Diploma in Library Science from the University of Calcutta. He
obtained his Master's degree in Library and Information Science (LIS) from the
University of Delhi standing First Class First and earned his PhD from Jadavpur
University working on the history of Indian scientific periodical. Dr. Sen
served INSDOC for more than thirty years working on various capacities and
heading among others Russian science Information Centre. National Centre on
Bibliometrics, Education and Training division and National Science Library. He
served the University of Malaya's a Visting Professor from 1955 till 1999.
During his long career as an academic spanning well nigh four decades he has
taught a number of subjects including Cataloguing, Classification, Information
sources, Collection development, Information and society Bibliometrics, and
Technical writing. During his career he has classified more than a hundred
thousand documents. Dr Sen has more than a hundred research papers to his credit
and wrote around twenty course materials for Indira Gandhi National Open
University and Jawahar Lal Nehru University. His publications include among
others: On Bengali scientific terminology (Bengali) Glossary of library and
information science terms English Bengali (Bengal Library Association), In
search of Knowledge (CSIR) , Directory of scientific research institutions in
India. 2nd ed (INSDOC), Growth of scientific periodicals in India (1788-1900)
and Growth of scientific periodicals in India (1901-1947) both published by
Indian National Science Academy. For his academic contributions Dr Sen has
received several awards including Prof. S Dasgupta Memorial Gold Medal
(University of Delhi) , Dr. T M Das Foundation Award for Popular Science Writing
in Bengali, and Tincori Dutt Award for Best Writing in Library and Information
Science published in Granthagar. His Biodata figures in about a dozen biographic
sources. In academic Pursuit, he has traveled far and wide including the
countries of Asia Europe, America, and Australia.



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