REFLECTION WEEK 7 : CLASIFICATION WITH DDC

Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera,

Our lesson this week is about how to classify the material at the library. En. Razak had intoduced to us about the Dewey Decimals Clasification (DDC) that use to make the clasification on the material at library. Actually DDC generally is about :

1. The most widely used classification system in the world. Libraries in more than 135 countries use the  DDC to organize and provide access to their collections, and DDC numbers are featured in the national bibliographies of more than sixty countries. Libraries of every type apply Dewey numbers on a daily basis and share these numbers through a variety of means (including WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog).Dewey is also used for other purposes, e.g., as a browsing mechanism for resources on the web.

2. Developed and maintained in a national bibliographic agency, the Library of Congress. The Dewey editorial office is located in the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress, where annually the classification specialists assign over 110,000 DDC numbers to records for works cataloged by the Library. Having the editorial office within the Decimal Classification Division enables the editors to detect trends in the literature that must be incorporated into the Classification. The editors prepare proposed schedule revisions and expansions, and forward the proposals to the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee (EPC) for review and recommended action.

3. Presented in the DDC Summaries in the beginning of volume 2. The first summary contains the ten main classes. The second summary contains the hundred divisions. The third summary contains the thousand sections. The first and second summaries are provided for browsing purposes, and the headings do not necessarily match the name of the sections found in the schedules.

In the resource centre we try to identify the call number of some books by using DDC as below :

Book 1: 

Dinitto, Diana M.                                                                                                                          
     Social welfare : politic and public policy/Diana M.Dinnitto;Thomas R.Dye.-2nd    ed.-Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall., 1983.

      xii, 292p.; 235 cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-13-819483-1 01

      1. Public welfare  I. Dye, Thomas R. II. Title

361.613
DIN

Book 2:

Imam Ghazali

     Ihya' ulumuddin: mengembangkan ilmu-ilmu agama/Imam Ghazali; penterjemah Ismail Yakub  
     MA.Singapura: Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd, 1981.

     521p.; 21 cm.

     Terdapat 6 siri

     Di perpustakaan terdapat siri 1,2,3,4,5 dan 6.

     ISBN 9971-77-008-3

    1. Religion   2. Religous life    I. Ismail Yakub MA . II. Title.

297.57 

GHA

Book 3:

Van Dyke, Kate
     Asas petroleum / Kate Van Dyke; penterjemah Issham Ismail - Edisi ke-2-Skudai: Penerbit
     UTM, 2000

     vii, 358 p.; 28 cm

     Mengandungi rujukan bibliografi dand indexs

     ISBN 983-52-0193-5

     1. Petroleum   I. Issham Ismail   II. Judul

553.28 

VAN