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Information Storage and Retrieval

Notes I – Psychology & Psychiatry
J – Education
K – Society (includes Social sciences, sociology & social anthropology)
L/O – History (including area studies, travel and topography, and biography)
LA – Archaeology
P – Religion, Occult, Morals and ethics
Q – Social welfare & Criminology
R – Politics & Public administration
S – Law
T – Economics & Management of economic enterprises
U/V – Technology and useful arts (including household management and services)
W – The Arts
WV/WX – Music
X/Y – Language and literature
ZA/ZW – Museology

Self Assessment
Multiple Choice Questions:
1. Second edition of the system (BC2) has been developed in Britain since:
(a) 1967 (b) 1975
(c) 1977 (d) 1976
2. Bliss was born in New York in ......
(a) 1860 (b) 1870
(c) 1880 (d) 1891
3. In 1908 Bliss reclassified ...... of his library’s book.
(a) 40,000 (b) 50,000
(c) 60,000 (d) 70,000
4. In ...... the Bliss classification association was formed.
(a) 1964 (b) 1965
(c) 1966 (d) 1967

2.8 Summary

• Library classification, system of arrangement adopted by a library to enable patrons
to find its materials quickly and easily.
• The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System).
• The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes.
• DDC’s advantage in using decimals for its categories.
• The Universal Decimal Classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul
Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.
• The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress.

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