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An insight into 110 years of influence of Principle of Literary Warrant on Dewey Decimal Classification system

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Title An insight into 110 years of influence of Principle of Literary Warrant on Dewey Decimal Classification system
 
Creator Majumdar, Sandip
 
Subject DDC
Dewey Decimal Classification
 
Description 398-405
The present article is an endeavour to understand the one hundred and ten years of influence of the Principle of Literary
warrant as introduced by E. Wyndham Hulme on the revision of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) through different
editions in the field of library classification theory and practice. During this study, a comparison with other warrants/consensus
has been undertaken whenever and wherever deemed necessary. The literary exploration was based on all the editions of DDC
which are available on Internet Archive platform. The paper divides different editions of DDC into two distinct groups: one in
which only veiled references to literary warrant were found corroborating Dewey‟s thinking about applicability of different
consensus angle and the other where declared references to the concept by Editorial Policy Committee were encountered. The
article concludes that the principle has extended its influence on the web environment of DDC as well.
 
Date 2021-12-24T10:02:14Z
2021-12-24T10:02:14Z
2021-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/58719
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.68(4) [December 2021]