Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee | ix | ||||
Preface and Acknowledgments | xiii | ||||
New Features in Abridged Edition 14 | xvii | ||||
Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification | xxiii | ||||
About the Introduction | xxiii | ||||
Classification: What It Is and What It Does | xxiii | ||||
History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification | xxiii | ||||
Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification | xxiv | ||||
Conceptual Framework | xxiv | ||||
Notation | xxvi | ||||
Principle of Hierarchy | xxvi | ||||
Classifying with the DDC | xxvii | ||||
Determining the Subject of a Work | xxvii | ||||
Determining the Discipline of a Work | xxviii | ||||
More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline | xxviii | ||||
More Than One Discipline | xxix | ||||
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How Abridged Edition 14 Is Arranged | xxx | ||||
Key Features of the Schedules and Tables | xxxi | ||||
Summaries | xxxi | ||||
Entries | xxxi | ||||
Notes | xxxii | ||||
Number Building | xxxvii | ||||
Citation and Preference Order | xl | ||||
Citation Order | xl | ||||
Preference Order | xli | ||||
The Manual | xli | ||||
Arrangement and Format of the Manual | xli | ||||
The Relative Index | xlii | ||||
Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index | xliii | ||||
Interdisciplinary Numbers | xliii | ||||
Terms Included in the Relative Index | xliv | ||||
Terms Not Included in the Relative Index | xliv | ||||
Options | xlv | ||||
Close and Broad Classification | xlvi | ||||
More Information | xlvi | ||||
Glossary | xlvii | ||||
Index to the Introduction and Glossary | lvii | ||||
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