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  1. Ranganathan, S.R.: Classification and communication (2006) 0.02
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    Content
    Inhalt: Part I ---Classification and Its Evolution 11. First sense --Primitive use 12. Second sense---Common use 13. Third sense--- Library classification 14. Field of knowledge 15. Enumerative classification 16. Analytico-synthetic classification 17. Uses of analytico-synthetic classification 18. Depth -classification --Confession of a faith Part 2---Communication 21. Co-operative living 22. Communication and language 23. Commercial contact 24. Political understanding 25. Literary exchange 26. Spiritual communion 27. Cultural concord 28. Intellectual team -work Part 3---Classification and Its Future 31. Domains in communication 32. Domain of classification 33. Time-and Space-Facets 34. Preliminary schedules 35. Energy-Facet 36. Matter-Facet 37. Personality -Facet 38. Research and Organisation
  2. Ranganathan, S.R.: Colon Classification edition 7 : a preview (1969) 0.00
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    Source
    Library science with a slant to documentation. 6(1969), S.193-240
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  3. Ranganathan, S.R.: Library classification as a discipline (1957) 0.00
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  4. Ranganathan, S.R.: Zone analysis and mixed notation (1992) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Describes the emergence of mixed notation with the use of connecting symbols needed in an analytico-synthetic classification suited to the depth classification of micro-documents dealing with a dynamic universe of knowledge. Indicates the advantages of zone-formation in anarray with a mixed notation to accomodate newly emerging main classes, partial comprehension of main classes, heterogeneous sets of isolates in an array of a facet, numerous isolates in a facet, numerous canonical issues within a main class, and telescoping of facets
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  5. Ranganathan, S.R.: ¬A descriptive account of the Colon Classification (1990) 0.00
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  6. Ranganathan, S.R.: Library classification : its added uses (1952) 0.00
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  7. Ranganathan, S.R.: Library classification : relation between producer and consumer (1952) 0.00
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  8. Ranganathan, S.R.: Self-perpetuating scheme of classification (1949) 0.00
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  9. Ranganathan, S.R.: Classification research in India : 1957-1963 ; trend report (1964) 0.00
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  10. Ranganathan, S.R.; Neelameghan, A.: Classified Catalogue Code (2006) 0.00
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  11. Ranganathan, S.R.: Library classification on the march (1961) 0.00
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  12. Ranganathan, S.R.; Palmer, B.I.: Ranganathan Memorial Issue: impact of growth in the universe of subjects on classification, Ranganathan, the man and his works, View through a bibliography (1972) 0.00
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  13. Ranganathan, S.R.; Neelameghan, A.: Classified catalogue code : With additional rules for dictionary catalogue code (1989) 0.00
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  14. Bhattacharyya, G.; Ranganathan, S.R.: From knowledge classification to library classification (1978) 0.00
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  15. Ranganathan, S.R.: Library classification through a century (1965) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The progress in the first century of the classification era is traced in the three majot perios: pre-facet, transition-to-facet, and facet period. The facet-period is divided into the restricted facet formula, generilised facet formula periods and the two relativity periods - viz. Dorking and Elsinore periods. For each of the six resulting periods, the chief achievements in library classification and the social factors leading to them are mentioned. The achievements of the Dorking period just ending are described in greater detail. The follows the programme of research work for the Elsinore period of 1965 to 1975. A programme for fundamental research in the idea, verbal, and notational planes is chalked out. Then follows the programme for routine research in the building of schedules of common isolates, whcih is a back log from the Dorking period, and in the new area of the design and building of schedules for the depth classification of diverse subjects, needed for documentation work and service. Lastly, the organization suitable to carry out the programme is outlined
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  16. Ranganathan, S.R.: Subject headings and facet analysis (1964) 0.00
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    Abstract
    After establishing the terminology, shows how the choice of the name of the subject of a document and the rendering of the name in the heading of the specific subject entry can be got by facet analysis based on postulates and principles. After showing that subject headings constitute an artificial language, points out that using facet analysis for subject heading does not amount to using class number. Marks out the area for an objective statistical survey of sought heading for subject entry. Calls on Council for Library Resources Incorporated to provide for this project
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  17. Ranganathan, S.R.: Elements of library classification (1959) 0.00
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    Abstract
    A medium-length book, based on lectures, aimed at classificationists, not cataloguers or classifiers. Ranganathan begins with his Five Laws and a definition of classification and its purposes. He gives a list of 108 subjects in "unhelpful alphabetical sequence" and shows how they can be grouped into subjects, and then how each each subject's terms can be organized in a helpful and useful way, thereby demonstrating and building up his basic canons, postulates, and principles of classification. All of that, roughly the first half of the book, will be of interest to anyone starting to make classification systems. It has all of what makes Ranganathan's work so delightful to read: his unending concern for the user, his deep thought, and his warmth, humour, and spirituality. The second half of the book, however, has what can make his work difficult: his unyielding belief that the Colon Classification is the only system worth using. The reader will not be very interested in repeatedly classifying books under various systems and then reversing the process to see how closely the call number matches the subject. However, the reader can take the ideas so clearly presented in the first half of the book and then veer off to build his or her own system, while remembering that if his classification laws are likened to Euclid's laws of geometry, there is no room for a Riemann or Lobachevksy in Ranganathan's strict world.
  18. Ranganathan, S.R.: ¬The five laws of library science (1989) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Enthält eine ausführliche Darstellung der '5 Gesetze': Books are for use - Every reader his book - Every book its reader - Save the time of the reader - Library is a growing organism mit Anwendungen und Interpretationen auf verschiedene Situationen der Bibliothekspraxis.
  19. Ranganathan, S.R.: Facet analysis: fundamental categories (1985) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Among the theorists in the field of subject analysis in the twentieth century, none has been more influential than S. R. Ranganathan (1892-1972) of India, a mathematician by training who turned to librarianship and made some of the most far-reaching contributions to the theory of librarianship in general and subject analysis in particular. Dissatisfied with both the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Universal Decimal Classification, Ranganathan set out to develop his own system. His Colon Classification was first published in 1933 and went through six editions; the seventh edition was in progress when Ranganathan died in 1972. In the course of developing the Colon Classification, Ranganathan formulated a body of classification theory which was published in numerous writings, of which the best known are Elements of Library Classification (1945; 3rd ed., 1962) and Prolegomena to Library Classification (1967). Among the principles Ranganathan established, the most powerful and influential are those relating to facet analysis. Ranganathan demonstrated that facet analysis (breaking down subjects into their component parts) and synthesis (recombining these parts to fit the documents) provide the most viable approach to representing the contents of documents. Although the idea and use of facets, though not always called by that name, have been present for a long time (for instance, in the Dewey Decimal Classification and Charles A. Cutter's Expansive Classification), Ranganathan was the person who systematized the ideas and established principles for them. For his Colon Classification, Ranganathan identified five fundamental categories: Personality (P), Material (M), Energy (E), Space (S) and Time (T) and the citation order PMEST based an the idea of decreasing concreteness.
    The Colon Classification has not been widely adopted; however, the theory of facet analysis and synthesis Ranganathan developed has proved to be most influential. Although many theorists of subject analysis do not totally agree with his fundamental categories or citation order, Ranganathan's concept of facet analysis and synthesis has provided a viable method and a framework for approaching subject analysis and has become the foundation of subject analysis in the twentieth century. In this sense, his theory laid the groundwork for later investigations and inquiries into the nature of subject and classificatory categories and citation order. His influence is felt in all modern classification schemes and indexing systems. This is attested to by the citations to his ideas and works in numerous papers included in this collection and by the fact that other modern classification systems such as the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Bliss Bibliographic Classification have become increasingly faceted in recent editions. The following chapter from Elements of Library Classification represents one of Ranganathan's many expositions of facet analysis and fundamental categories. It is chosen because of its clarity of expression and comprehensibility (many readers find the majority of his writings difficult to understand).
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    Theory of subject analysis: a sourcebook. Ed.: L.M. Chan, et al
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  20. Ranganathan, S.R.: Colon Classification (Sixth Edition) (2007) 0.00
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    Abstract
    THE COLON CLASSIFICATION is the latest scheme in the field of classification. It has revolutionised thinking in classification and stimulated research in it. This new method is suited to small and large, general and special libraries and can be used in classifying whole books as well as individual articles in a periodical or sections in a book.. It is being taught in all schools o Library Science all over the world, not only as a means of arranging books on shelves but also as a means of finding out the focus of a book in systematic way and finding the requirements of a reader while doing reference service. The new methodologies in classification invented as part of the Colon Classification-the Facet Analysis, the Phase Analysis and the Zone Analysis--have lifted Practical Classification from guesswork to scientific method. They are forming an important theme in international conferences on information retrieval.