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Classification

      Titles Descriptions
  1. 025.431: The Dewey Blog
  2. BookData
  3. Cataloging Documentation on the Web
  4. Cataloguing and Metadata Resources
  5. CIGS: MARC Resources
  6. Classification Society of North America (CSNA)
  7. Classification System for Libraries of Judaica
  8. Context-Dependent Information Filtering
  9. Do We Really Know Dewey
  10. MARC Standards
  11. OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
  12. Selected Bibliography for Library Acquisitions
  13. Spanish Subject Headings
  14. Theory and Applications of Categories
  15. UDC Consortium

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025.431: The Dewey Blog
Promising to reveal 'everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification system but were afraid to ask', the guardians and publishers of DDC relate the popular library classification system to current events, share news, puzzles, comments and crosswords and answer FAQs. Arranged by hundred divisions, there are also sections on Dewey in the news, Dewey online, Dewey in arts and culture, and weekly tips.
     Author: Mitchell, Joan, and staff of the Dewey Editorial Office, Decimal Classification Divison, Library of Congress
     Subjects: bibliographic control, classification, library and information science news
     DeweyClass: 025.431
     Resource type: documents
BookData
Creates bibliographic records including descriptions, tables of contents and a range of subject classifications. Holds a database of over one million records for books and other materials.
     Author: Book Data
     Subjects: acquisitions, book studies, classification
     DeweyClass: 025.2
     Resource type: productinfo
Cataloging Documentation on the Web
Numerous links to Internet resources about cataloguing, covering descriptive and subject cataloguing, guidelines, DDC, MARC and OCLC.
     Author: University of Oregon Knight Library
     Subjects: bibliographic control, classification
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: index
Cataloguing and Metadata Resources
Collection of links to resources supporting cataloguing efforts, including aids and tools like a Cataloguing Terminology Glossary, standards such as MARC, and approaches to organising Internet resources using metadata like Dublin Core.
     Author: Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid & Smith, Michael
     Subjects: classification, dublin core, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: index
CIGS: MARC Resources
Offers access to presentations from the CIGS '?MARC' seminar held in Edinburgh on 23rd May 2001, and guidelines on MARC21 cataloguing for staff at Edinburgh University Library.
     Author: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland
     Subjects: classification
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: documents
Classification Society of North America (CSNA)
A nonprofit interdisciplinary organisation whose purpose is to promote the scientific study of classification and clustering (including systematic methods of creating classifications from data), and to disseminate scientific and educational information related to its fields of interests.
     Author: Classification Society of North America
     Subjects: classification, interdisciplinary studies
     DeweyClass: 001.012
     Resource type: institution
Classification System for Libraries of Judaica
Information, tables of contents, and comments on work based upon, and arranged according to, Jewish thought, history, and religion, and used in libraries of all kinds, synagogues, community centres, Hebrew schools, college campuses, and research institutions.
     Author: Elazar, David & Elazar, Daniel
     Subjects: classification, hebrew, jewish history
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: book
Context-Dependent Information Filtering
Article discussing the notion that different people use different terms or phrases to access the same information. An approach is presented which recognises that one concept may be represented by several different terms, many concepts may be represented by a single term, and that concepts may overlap.
     Author: Lee, Maria R.
     Subjects: classification, indexing, information retrieval, linguistics
     DeweyClass: 025.524
     Resource type: article
Do We Really Know Dewey
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal classification scheme with information about its deviser Melvil Dewey, shelving procedures, call numbers, the drop-back theory, and the differences between fiction and non-fiction, and between natural and applied science.
     Author: ThinkQuest Junior
     Subjects: classification
     DeweyClass: 025.4
     Resource type: guide
MARC Standards
Information from the MARC Standards office on records and systems, documentation, software and formats.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: bibliographic control, classification
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: reference documents
OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
OCLC is as non-profit computer library service and research organisation. It operates the PRISM service for cataloguing and resource sharing, provides online reference systems for both librarians and end users, and distributes online electronic journals. Site includes information about OCLC, its services and products, news releases, publications, and research results.
     Author: OCLC
     Subjects: bibliographic control, classification, electronic journal collections, library resource sharing
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: institution
Selected Bibliography for Library Acquisitions
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services is responsible for acquisition, identification, cataloguing, classification, and preservation of library materials. This bibliography compiled in 1997 for ALCTS Acquisitions Section.
     Author: Hall, Barbara
     Subjects: acquisitions, classification, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: bibliography
Spanish Subject Headings
Presents an alphabetical listing of over 1500 Spanish language equivalents to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
     Author: Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Public Library
     Subjects: bibliographic control, classification, spanish
     DeweyClass: 025.3
     Resource type: documents
Theory and Applications of Categories
An electronic, refereed journal on category theory, categorical methods and their applications in the mathematical sciences.
     Author: Mount Allison University, Canada
     Subjects: classification, mathematics research
     DeweyClass: 511.3
     Resource type: journal
UDC Consortium
Offers an overview of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system, a listing of extensions and corrections to the published version, news about the scheme, and details of UDC publications. Also offers information on the master reference file which lists 60,000 standard subdivisions.
     Author: UDC Consortium
     Subjects: classification
     DeweyClass: 025.4
     Resource type: documents