Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Dewey's Decimal Classification


  1. DDC devised by Melvil Dewey in 1876
  2. The publication of a 42-pages pamphlet entitled A classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library
  3. This was the first edition, which consisted of 12 pages of preparatory matter, 12 pages of tables and 18'pages of index, a total of 42 pages.
  4. It contained nearly 1000 classes
  5. 1stedition -1876 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  6. 2ndedition -1885 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  7. 3rdedition -1888 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  8. 4thedition -1891 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  9. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  10. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  11. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  12. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  13. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  14. 15thedition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  15. 11th edition _______________________________
  16. 12th edition -1922 (edited by ________________ )
  17. 13th edition -1932 (edited by ________________ )
  18. 14th edition -1942 (edited by ________________ )
  19. 15th edition -1951 (edited by Milton James ferguson )
  20. 16th edition -1958 (edited by Benjamin A Custer )
  21. 17th edition -1965 edited by Benjamin A Custer )
  22. 18th edition -1976  edited by Benjamin A Custer )  (in 3 volumes)
  23. 19th edition – 1979 edited by Benjamin A Custer )(in 3 volumes)
  24. 20th edition -1989 (edited by John P Comaromi) (in 4 volumes)
  25. 21st  edition -1996 (edited by Joan S. Mitchell)   (in 4 volumes)
  26. 22nd   edition -2003 (edited by Joan S. Mitchell)
  27. 23rdedition - 2011 (in 4 vol) Joan S. Mitchell, Julianne Beall and Rebecca Green
  28.  The abridged edition, Abridged Edition 15, published in February 2012
  29. Forest Press has been the publisher of DDC since 1911 a Division of OCLC Online
  30. Computer Library Centre
  31. Edition 19 of DDC had been printed from the computer tape in 1979
  32. DDC 21 appeared in two formats: In print; and Dewey for Windows, a Microsoft Windows TM-based version (released in August 1996) (CD version) Latter is known as Dewey for Windows (DfW)

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