Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index Volume 1 Introduction ⏹ Tables

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Publisher’s Foreword xi Preface by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee xiii Acknowledgments xvii New Features in Edition 20 xix Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification xxv About the Introduction xxv Classification: What It Is and What It Does xxv History and Current Use of the Dewey Decimal Classification xxvi Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification xxvi Conceptual Framework xxvi Notation xxvii Principle of Hierarchy xxviii Classifying with the DDC xxix Determining the Subject of a Work xxix Determining the Discipline for a Work Xxxi More Than One Subject xxxi More Than One Discipline xxxi When All Else Fails xxxii How DDC 20 Is Arranged xxxiii Key Features of the Schedules and Tables xxxiii Summaries xxxiii Entries xxxiv Notes xxxv Number Building xl Number Building: Citation and Precedence Order xliii Citation Order xliii Precedence Order xliii The Relative Index xliv How to Use the Relative Index xlv Format and Arrangement of the Relative Index xlv Order in Which Numbers Are Displayed xlvi Interdisciplinary Numbers xlvi Terms Included in the Relative Index xlviii Terms Not Included in the Relative Index xlviii Options xIviii Close and Broad Classification xlix Book Numbers xlix Selected Bibliography li Glossary li Index to the Introduction and Glossary lix Publishing History of the Dewey Decimal Classification lxi Tables 1 Use of the Tables 2 Table 1. Standard Subdivisions 3 Table 2. Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Persons 25 Table 3. Subdivisions for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms 389 Table 3-A. Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors 389 Table 3-B. Subdivisions for Works by or about More than One Author 394 Table 3-C. Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3-B and in 808-809 409 Table 4. Subdivisions of Individual Languages 415 Table 5. Racial, Ethnic, National Groups 421 Table 6. Languages 438 Table 7. Groups of Persons 457 Relocations and Reductions 479 Comparative Tables 496 Music 496 British Columbia 505 Equivalence Tables 506 Music 306 British Columbia 514