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Library Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes clusters, such as city, town, etc. All these are taken. To be a manifestation of the FC “Space”:
The following are examples of titles wherein Space Isolates are present.
Textile industry in Canada
Mountain ranges of India
Air-conditioning in the tropics
Public library services in village
Political conflicts relating to the Indian Ocean
The Ganga cleaning project.
From the above, it is clear that the manifestation of FCs Time and Space can be easily
understood and present no difficulty, generally, in their identification. In many cases, they
can be identified from the titles of documents themselves.
Energy. The manifestations of Energy are generally actions. They connote dynamic
actions, such as, “doing”, “changing “evaluating “determining”, `’forecasting”, “analysis”,
etc. The action may be among and by all kinds of entities - inanimate, animate, conceptual,
intellectual, and intuitive. The identification of the FC “Energy” is a little more difficult
than that of “Time” or “Space”. As matter of fact, the distinction between the manifestation
of “Energy” isolate and “Matter Property” isolate poses problems mainly due to action-
associated ideas. It has been found that two groups of attributes can be deemed to be
manifestations of Matter (Property).
Isolate idea denoting a “static” attribute that is an action-associated attribute doing some
characteristic function-general or specific-or a behaviour of an .entity or a system. For
example, “Function”, “Physiology” and “Control”. On this basis an isolate idea such as
“Control occurs as a facet in the subject “Management” because, it denotes a function of
management. But, on the other hand, the isolate idea “Control” occurring as a facet in the
subject of “Control of the diseases of the human body” is deemed to be a manifestation of
Energy.

Did u know? ”Control”is not a manifestation of Matter as it does not denote a function of
anyone deemed to be a dynamic attribute of the core entity.
The following are examples of Energy Isolates:
Preparation Focusing Separation
Generation Reflection Diagnosis
Operating Scattering Extraction
Collecting Discussing Distillation
Investigation Warming Fusion
Matter. The identification of the, FC “Matter”, is more difficult than even “Energy”, its
manifestations are taken to be of two kinds - Matter-Material and Matter-Property. Viewed
from the angle of Classification, Matter-Material ranges from chemical elements or raw
materials from one end to finished products at the other end. There is a series of intermediate
stages, connecting these two ends. For example, cotton is a raw material in the context of
garment manufacture which is a finished product. Cotton fabric is at the intermediate
stage. Cotton, however, is the ultimate crop product in the context of agriculture.
According to Ranganathan’s school of thought, properties of things, persons, etc., are also
deemed to be manifestations of Matter. Isolates such as variance, intensity, wave length,
height, weight, volume, etc., are regarded as manifestations of Matter.
Here, are some examples of titles displaying Matter Isolates.
Density of solid
Ink quality in printing

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