1. CLASSIFICATION

2. What is Classification
Grouping of items
Making subgroups
Arranging the groups, and the items within the groups

3. How can we classify books?
Size
Colour of cover ?
Subject

4. Why do we arrange books by subject?
To make it easy to find the information that a reader is looking for.
Classification brings together all books on the same subject, so all similar information is brought together

5. Why do we not arrange books on shelves according to author or title or year of publication or serial number?
Because that would not be useful for finding information

6. In Book Classification
We group the books according to the subjects, and arrange them on the shelves.

7. How will we group these books?
Take the list of books provided and suggest how you will group them in a library

8. Why Classification? To organise Collection
Like subjects together
Separate unlike
To Retrieve Collection quickly
To manage Collection efficiently ( adding, withdrawal, stock checking, etc. )
For future, situations like shift of location, merging library with other library.

9. Subjects Science Applied sciences and Technology Social Sciences
History, Geography
Language and Literature
Philosophy, religion
Arts- Fine & decorative, performing
Sports and games

10. Now we have made the arrangement
If a person borrows a book, and returns it after a few days, how will we know where to put it back?
So we have a notation

11. Notation
Notation is a number or alphabets or symbols, which represents the subject of the book,
E.g Education
The notation has a built-in order of arrangement
e.g. 350, 360, 370, 371, 372, …380…
So the notation shows where the book is kept on the shelf

12. A Classification Scheme
A classification scheme is a list of all subjects, arranged in groups
For each subject, a symbol/number is given, i.e. the notation

13. Popular Schemes Used
Books are classified using tools for book classification such as :
Dewey Decimal Classification
Library of Congress Classification
Universal Decimal Classification
Colon Classification, etc.

14. The Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
Most popular book classification scheme in the world
Simple to understand
Makes it easy for users to find books
Regularly revised to add new subjects

15. Organization of DDC Four Volumes Vol. 1 Introduction and Tables
Vol Class
Vol Class
Vol. 4 Relative Index and Manual
19th edition is in 3 volumes only

16. The Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
All subjects are divided into 10 main classes:
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Philosophy & psychology 200 Religion 300 Social sciences 400 Language 500 Science 600 Technology 700 Arts & Recreation 800 Literature 900 History & Geography

17. Another example
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 310 Statistics 320 Political science 330 Economics 340 Law 350 Public administration & military science 360 Social problems & social services 370 Education 380 Commerce, communications & transportation 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore
370 Education 371 School management; special education
372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
374 Adult education
375 Curriculums
376 No longer used—formerly Education of women
377 No longer used—formerly Ethical education
378 Higher education
379 Government regulation, control, support

18. Dewey Numbers
Each number indicates the bigger classes to which the subject belongs
E.g – Science
540 – Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
– Chemistry of Copper and its compounds

19. Decimal arrangement Arrange the following numbers: 628. 9 628.1401
628.25

20. How do you decide what is the subject of a book?
1. See the title. But that is not enough. E.g. Animal Farm is not about Zoology or agriculture
2. Look at the preface and contents
3. If necessary look at the chapters

21. How to classify books using DDC
1. Look carefully at the book and decide its subject
2. Decide the subject group in which you will put the book.
3. Select the most specific number for the subject of the book e.g. if the books is about monkeys, do not put it under Zoology, or mammals; look for the specific number for monkeys
4. If necessary, use the index to the DDC

22. Where you will classify these….
Butterfly
Indian politics
Ramayan in Marathi
“Shivaji the Great”
“Wings of Fire”
Calligraphy
Water
Dowry Prohibition

23. Temples of India
Marathi Dictionary
Electricity
‘I Dare’ : Biography of Kiran Bedi
Export of Rice
Cooking
Rain
Rain water harvesting
Poems on Rain

24. Adding Tables DDC 21st ed. has 7 tables
Table 1 is Standard Subdivision Table which is common for all classes, can be used throughout the schedule.
Table 2 to Table 7 are special table and should be used only when instructed in the schedule.

25. Adding Standard Subdivisions
03 Dictionaries and Encyclopedia
05 Journals and magazines
07 Education and Research
071 Education, study and teaching
072 Research
09 History of a subject, Person

26. Use of Summary given at individual Class
Dictionary of Library Science
std. subdiv.
Therefore,
Final number will be
020.3
Dictionary of Higher Education
std. subdiv.
Therefore
Final number will be

27. How the books are shelved
left-to-right, top-to-bottom
That means you start at the left on the top shelf and move to the right until the shelf ends.

28. Thank you