LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 16 : Cataloguing Code and Year of Publication

British Museum Code -- 1841

Rules For Dictionary Catalogue--1876

Prussion Instruction--1899

Anglo-American Code(AAC)--1908

Vatican Code(VC)--1927

Classified Catalogue Code(CCC)--1934

American Library Association Code(ALA)--1949

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-I(AACR-I)--1967

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-II(AACR-II)--1978

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-II Revised -- 1988

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 15 : Areas of AACR 2

• Area 1: Title and statement of responsibility
• Area 2: Edition statement
• Area 3: Material-specific details
• Area 4: Details of publication, distribution, etc.
• Area 5: Physical description
• Area 6: Series statement
• Area 7: Notes
• Area 8: ISBN and Terms of availability (price)

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 14 : Abbreviations - Expansion in LIS

 

A

AGRIS – International System for Agricultural Science and Technology

ALA - American Library Association

ALP - Action for Development through Libraries Programme

B

BONET – Bombay Library Network

BSLA - Building Strong Library Associations

C

CALIBNET – Calcutta Library Network

CAPS – Contents, Abstract and Photocopy Service 

CAS – Current Awareness Service

CAS - Chemical Abstract Service

CLM - Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters

CRG – Classification Research Group

D

DELNET – Developing Library Network

DESIDOC - Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre

DEVSIS – Development Science Information System

DRC – Data Referral Centre

DRTC - Documentation Research and Training Center

E

ENVIS – Environment Information System

I

IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

INFLIBNET – Information and Library Network 

ILA - Indian Library Association

L

LC - Library of Congress

LCSH- Library of Congress Subject Headings 

N

NASSDOC - National Social Science Documentation Centre 

P

PAC - Preservation and Conservation

PTLA - Publisher's Trade List Annual

S

SDI – Selective Dissemination of Information

SENDOC - Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre

SLSH - Sears List of Subject Headings 

T

TEST - Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms

U

UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. 

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 13 : Indicator Digits in 7th edition of Colon Classification

Symbol	Name of the Indicator Digit	Role of the Indicator Digit
*	Asterisk	Indicates Agglomeration and Interpolation
←	Backward arrow	Indicates backward range
→	Forward arrow	Indicates forward range
"	Double inverted comma	Indicates common isolates
&	Ampersand	Indicate phase relation
'	Single inverted comma	Indicate time facet
.	Dot	Indicates space facet
:	Colon	Indicates energy facet
;	Semicolon	Indicates matter facet
,	Comma	Indicates personality facet
-	Hyphen	Indicates spectator of kind 1
=	Equal sign	Indicates spectator of kind 2
+	Plus sign	And, addition

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 12 : Mapping of subjects in Colon Classification

z - Generalia

1 - Universe of Knowledge

2 - Library Science

3 - Book Science

4 - Mass Communication

8 - Management

A - Natual Sciences

B - Mathematics

C - Physics

D - Engineering

E - Chemistry

F - Technology

G - Biology

H - Geology

I - Botany

J - Agriculture

K - Zoology

L - Medicine

M - Useful Arts

Δ - Spiritual Experince and Mystisicm

N - Fine Arts

O - Literature

P - Languages

Q - Religion

R - Phylosophy

S - Psychology

T - Education

U - Geography

V - History

W - Political Sciences

X - Economics

Y - Sociology

Z - LaW

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 11 : Notation system in Colon Classification

The notations are symbols used to represent subjects in a classification system. In colon Classification mixed notation is used. It include;

• 23 Roman small letters - a to z (i,l and o are excluded)

• 10 Indo-Arabic numerals - 0 to 9

• 26 Roman Capital Letters - A to Z

• Bracketed numbers ( Numbers in Parenthesis) - Part of a class number derived by subject device will be bracketed numbers. For example - for the subject 'Hindu Law' the class number is Z, (Q,2). here 'Z' is the number for Law, the Basic Class and (Q,2) is for Hindu Religion, the number has derived via

• Indicator digits like * ” ← ) & ‘ . ; ,-= + → (

Empty Digit

To increase the capacity of an Array ( The classes having co-ordinate status) Colon Classification has introduced empty digits. Z, 0 (Zero) and 9 are used to represent empty digits. They has no semantic value but possessing ordinal value.

LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 10 : Colon Classification Introduction

Colon Classification (CC) was developed by Dr. S R Ranganathan in 1933.

It is the first ever faceted classification or analytico-synthetic classification.

Its name "colon classification" comes from the use of colons to separate facets in class numbers. there was only one symbol colon in earlier editions.

There were seven editions since 1987. The first six editions were edited by Dr S R Ranganathan himself and the seventh edition was edited by Professor M.A. Gopinath.

 

Editions of Colon Classification

• First edition- CC was developed from 1924 to 1928 and initally used in Madras University. It was first published in 1933 by Madras Library Association. It has three distinct part;

  127 pages of rules explaining the underlying principles

  135 pages of Schedule

  106 pages of Index
  

• The second edition in1939.The edition added a part 4 which contained about 3000 examples, which were illustrated in the rules given in the Rule part.  A new main class 8 Spiritual Experience and  Mysticism introduced.
  

• The third edition in 1950. Different kind of phase relations with connecting symbols introduced.
  

• The fourth edition in 1952. In this edition the facets PMEST ( Personality, Matter, Energy, Space and Time) introduced for the first time.

• The fifth editon in 1957. This edition was proposed as two volumes of basic and depth versions, but only basic version only was published.A new part was introduced giving details for phase and inter-facet relation was given as chapter - 7.Empty and emptying digits were introduced.
  

• The sisth edition in 1960. It was republished in 1963 with some amendments. It is the most popular and stable edition of CC.
  

• The seventh edition in 1987. The only edition which was note edited by Dr. S R Ranganathan and edited by Professor M.A. Gopinath. The are five parts in this edition;

  Part A - Introduction 

  Part B - Guidelines to the Beginner  

  Part C - General Rules

  Part D - General Division and  Common Isolates

  Part E - Special Isolates
  

  
  

  Three versions of Colon Classification

• Rigidly Faceted Era: The first three editions of Colon Classification (1933,1939, 1950) is known as rigidly faceted era. In these editions the facet formula was rigid and predetermined. The colon was the only connecting symbol for all the facets.

• Analytico -synthetic Era: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth (1952,1957,1960) editions of CC is known as Analytico -synthetic Era. The PMEST were introduced and different connecting symbols were introduced for each facet.

• Freely Faceted Era: The 1963 and 1987 editions are known as freely faceted era. During this period the CC became more flexible.