Abstract:
This chapter describes the first two phases in the process of library classification, namely subject analysis and class number assigning. The correct and comprehensive analysis of the subject and document determines the degree of accuracy and quality of classification, which then allows for the procedure and problems thereof of subject analysis to be correctly determined. The next phases typically describe the title as the main, but inadequate and unreliable sources may sometimes determine the subject of the document, which then need to be corrected. The types of titles given to books these days, and other sources for determining the specific subjects of documents are then reviewed, followed by discussions surrounding the procedure for translating facet analysis of the subject into the notation of the DDC. Details of the procedure for locating the desired class numbers step-by-step by entering the schedules are then reviewed, and finally this chapter outlines the difficulties of library classification, and lastly the named sources of ready-made Dewey class numbers for copy cataloguing.