Dewey Decimal Classification: A Study Manual and Number Building Guide

This guide is an essential purchase for technical services departments in all libraries, and has been updated to cover the changes introduced by the new edition of the DDC, which was published in August 2003. The study manual is used as a reference for the application of Dewey and is also suitable as a course text in Dewey. Scott provides an in-depth review of how DDC is updated and gives detailed lists of changes in each table and class.

Mona L. Scott is head of the Joint Personnel Recovery Library at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. She was previously head of technical services at the Bureau of the Census Library, and at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Library. Her published work includes Libraries Unlimited's Conversion Tables: LC-Dewey, Dewey-LC and Conversion Tables: Volume 3 Subject HeadingsLC and Dewey.