It has always been a lifetime practice of man to arrange things in the most convenient order to save time and for ease of access and use. Such practice is commonly known as classification; the aim of which to bring order and logics to things and thought. We are exposed to classification in every aspect of our life, for example the filing of patients records in a doctor’s office, the way supermarket arrange groceries on their shelves and the layout strategies garments stores use to display their products. Classification is one of the main activities of cataloguing and involves the assigning of numbers to represent subject content. Without classification, access to and the storing of library material would be very challenging, time consuming …show more content…
It should be able to accommodate new notation as knowledge expands e.g., new classifications such as computers, environmental issues. The terms must be clear and easy to understand, accompanied where necessary by full definitions, the scope of headings, and notes to guide the classifier. It should be printed in a form which is easy to handle and consult and enable the user to grasp the structure. It must be revised frequently to keep up with new knowledge, new interpretations, and new emphases in the presentation of knowledge. …show more content…
Subject relationships and disciplines moves from general to specific; hence DDC is also called hierarchical classification. The relative index brings together various aspects of subjects that appear in different disciplines. Mortimer highlighted that DDC consist of ten classes. Each of the classes from 100 to 900 represents broad discipline or group of disciplines, whereas the 000 class contains general subjects…each class has ten divisions and each division has ten sections
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Who can resist a book with a chapter titled, "Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School"? Released this past summer, Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out takes no prisoners as its contributors ponder everything from the backtracking of '60s values by ALA's baby boomers to librarian imagery in erotica. This edited volume is a sequel to a 1972 self-published book titled Revolting Librarians. The original is worth checking out for its historical value alone. The editors of the 2003 volume, Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West gathered essays from ten of the original writers from the 1972 book for this version and it is interesting to see what thirty years has done to these radical librarians.
Laudon, Kenneth C. Traver, Carol. E-commerce: Business. Technology. Society 3th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle NJ, 2007.
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences was written by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star in 1999 and published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This work, specifically the introduction discusses the idea of classification and how its patterns are a result of human nature. The authors argue that ultimately the reason we classify can be attributed to human qualities. This thesis is supported by relevant examples in our own lives. For example, the authors write about the classification found in a modern home from the fabric of the furniture to the various codes of building permits allowed. The act of classifying, according to the authors, is almost unconscious. They take this idea a step further by describing the process of classifying as being invisible. The introduction ultimately sets up a foundation for the authors to examine information infrastructures by using classification examples such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Nursing Interventions Classification. Their goal is to question why and how classification plays a role in life and human interaction.
Guder, C. S., & Booth, C. (2012). Making the right decisions about assistive technology in your library. Library Technology Reports, 48(7), 14-21.
In today's competing world, many organizations are rethinking their strategies in terms of the online business and its capabilities and culture. Organizations are taking advantage of the widespread web to buy and sell goods from other companies and recently from individual customers. Exploiting these opportunities of convenience, availability and widespread reach of the web or Internet, many companies such as Amazon have benefited from the use of web successfully.
During the last decade, we’ve been to the top of the world—during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s—and back down again, when it all fell apart a few years later. But with the bad came the good: The Web forever changed the business world. The following small-business owners are shining examples of how Web-based technologies can be a businessperson’s best friend.
By definition, the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is an indexing and retrieval language in the form of a classification for the whole of recorded knowledge, in which subjects are symbolized by a code based on Arabic numerals.[1] The UDC was the brain-child of the two Belgians, Paul Otlet and Henry LaFontaine, who began working on their system in 1889, 15 years after Melvil Dewey established the DDC.[2] Otlet and LaFontaine built their system on the foundation of the DDC with Melvil Dewey’s express permission. While Dewey conceived his scheme to be applied to the arrangement of books on shelves, Otlet and LaFontaine, whose fields were Sociology, Law, Statistics, Political Economy, as well as Philology and Literature, were ultimately more interested in journal articles, news items, other related documents, and how to access them. Thus, they required a more detailed system. Fortunately,Dewey agreed to allow them to apply his system to the International Index they had conceived, and by 1895 they had amassed and classified 400,000 cards for their Universal Index. Their system caught on after presenting it to a conference held the same year. Otlet and LaFontaine were required to augment Dewey’s system with numerous devices that they later described as synthetic.
A library or information unit must have a dedicated plan on having an organized Collection Development Policy, represents the guideposts of all types of library institutions. Collection development is the process of planning, selecting, acquiring and evaluating the library collections’ convenience to print and electronic collection developments. Thus, it is essential to have a written collection development policy, a statement of general collection building principles with desalinating the purpose and content of a collection in terms of relevance and internal audiences (Clayton and Gorman 2007). Broadly, the international and local libraries have sketched written collection development policies which they are aware of its uses. Recently, the written policies consistently renewed with the rise of digital collections. However, the value of the written collection development plan shakes with the complexity of managing electronic resources, funding and time considerations, criticism on how it written and also its inflexibility. This essay will examine the arguments for having the advantages of the written collection development policy (CDP) and the issues evolve which against the latter.
Ding (1993) mentioned that, an increasing number of Malay manuscripts in libraries, especially those in private collections, are disintegrating. This problem has been with the Malay World since the very beginning. Deterioration may be due to acid embrittlement of the paper, unsuitable storage environment, biological attacks or human negligence and mishandling. A number of these manuscripts are already brittle to a point of being unusable. As mentioned by Aytac (2002), flooding, terrorism, bomb threats, explosions, transportation accidents, earthquakes, fire and war also prove dangerous threats to the written cultural heritage. And because of this, the author also stated that the world cultural heritage is continually at risk because of natural and unnatural disasters. Thus, the development of a digital library of Malay manuscripts would provide significant insurance against the loss of these valuable materials for use in the learning community. According to Mohd Hilmi Md Rifin and A. N. Zainab, Many digital library initiatives focus on preserving various cultural heritages. Often, the initiatives comprise of various materials such as pictures, maps and paintings, and manuscripts are one of the materials included. Shafi (2004) listed some
A book which is the crystallization of human wisdom is a medium product for getting knowledge. With development of the technology, a book is not only the traditional paper book but also the electronic book which is spreading frequently in human’s lives. Some people prefer using print books, but some people are interesting in electronic books. Different people have different opinions. There are many factors to consider when discussing the matter of electronic book vs printed book, but ultimately, it boils down to the reader’s preference. We are interesting to know which one is better printed book or electronic book, and the reasons.
If consumers enjoy the online shopping experience, they are more likely to shop online. Study suggested that online shopping enjoyment can generate search intention, which in turn generates purchase intention (To et al., 2007). Consumers’ motivations for online shopping are dual characterizations. Research has claimed that utilitarian motivation can influence consumers’ intention to search and to purchase, while hedonic motivation has a direct impact on intention to search and indirect impact on intention to purchase (To et al., 2007). Online shopping has many advantages which can fit consumers’ needs and motivation.
The discussion into the relevance of this question can only be fabricated based on the definitive consideration of the internet, a key digital facet that expedites the abrasion of print publications. The internet has rendered access to information very effective, easy and strategic. Gone are the days when one would walk miles to the nearest library in order to satisfy their appetite for reading. With the internet, information storage has largely been restructured and can be retrieved in various digital forms. It is therefore commonsensical to assume that many publications, previously in print form, will eventually appear in digital format as e-books. To champions of printed books, this futuristic scenario provides the basis for their arguments.
growth in usage by both consumers and businesses. The unique capabilities of the Internet has captured the attention of the marketing community. While a growing number of companies have or are interested in developing an Internet presence, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about it and the potential ethical issues associated with its use as a marketing medium. Although many businesses are acknowledging the importance of a Web site, but the potential ethical issues related to marketing on the Internet still having an uncertainty in this situation. Much less attention has been given to the business community's perceptions of the ethicalness of this new medium. The unique interactivity of the Internet has captured the marketing community's interest as a way to develop and enhance customer relationships and establish greater brand identity. Thus, many commercial services have become available on the Internet that allow consumers and organizations to interact electronically. These services include booking airline tickets online, buying books and compact discs, and receiving stock market information. Although the number of consumer users and commercial organizations navigating on this "information superhighway" is growing almost exponentially, the benefits of the Internet are not without drawbacks.
In the context of the DELOS, a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and DL.org, a Coordination Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations, Digital Library researchers and practitioners and software developer produced a Digital Library Reference Model[2][3] which defines a digital library as: "A potentially virtual organisation, that comprehensively collects, manages and preserves for the long depth of time rich digital content, and offers to its targeted user communities specialised functionality on that content, of defined quality and according to comprehensive codified policies."[4]