Theory fo classification

1 NEED AND PURPOSE 1

2 BASIC CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY 13

3 INTRODUCTION TO MAJOR SCHEMES OF CLASSIFICATION 33

4 SPECIES OF SCHEMES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF SUBJECTS 68

5 EVOLUTION OF THEORY OF LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION 77

6 LAWS OF LIBRARY SCIENCE AND BASIC LAWS 86

7 CANONS FOR IDEA PLANE 96

8 CANONS FOR VERBAL PLANE 123

9 NOTATIONAL SYSTEM 127

10 CANONS FOR NOTATIONAL PLANE 153

11 MNEMONICS 163

12 PLANES OF WORK 183

13 FORMATION STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUBJECTS 189

14 DEVICES 200

15 POSTULATIONAL APPROACH 224

16 CATEGORIES 246

17 COMMON AND SPECIAL ISOLATES 259

18 SPACE ISOLATES 276

19 TIME ISOLATES 292

20 INDICATOR DIGITS 307

21 PHASE RELATION 328

22 BOOK NUMBER AND COLLECTION NUMBER 340

23 GENERAL VERSUS SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION 353

24 HISTORY OF LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION 359

25 COMPARISON OF MAJOR SCHEMES OF CLASSIFICATION 373

26 NORMATIVE PRINCIPLES A COMPARATIVE STUDY 393

27 REVISION OF MAJOR SCHEMES OF CLASSIFICATION 411

28 EVOLUTION OF NOTATIONAL TECHNIQUES 422

29 AUTONOMY AND GUIDANCE TO A CLASSIFIER 429

30 KNOWLEDGE CLASSIFICATION VERSUS LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION 435

31 COMPUTER AND CLASSIFICATION 439

32 ABSTRACT CLASSIFICATION 451

33 DESIGN OF A SCHEME FOR LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION A METHODOLOGY 456

34 USES OF CLASSIFICATION 471

35 CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH GROUPS SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS 478

36 DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS 495

INDEX 529