Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index [23rd edition]

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Cover Title Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgements New features in 23rd Edition Introduction to the DDC Classification: What it is and what it does History, use and development of DDC Overview of DDC Classifying with the DDC How DDC 23 is arranged Key Features of the Schedules and Tables Number Building Citation and Preference Order The Manual The Relative Index Options Close and Broad Classification More Information Glossary Index to Introduction and Glossary Manual Notes on Table Numbers Notes on Schedules Numbers Tables Table 1: Standard Subdivisions Table 2: Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography Table 3: Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for specific Literary forms Table 3A: Subdivisions for Works by or about Individual Authors Table 3B: Subdivisions for Works by or about More than one Author Table 3C: Notation to be added where instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809 Table 4: Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Languages Families Table 5: Ethnic and National Groups Table 6: Languages Relocations and Discontinuations Equivalence Tables Reused Numbers Back Cover