Seminar

CANON OF RELEVANT SUCCESSION The succession of the characteristics in the associated scheme of characteristics should be relevant to the purpose of classification EXAMPLES: 1),DECIMAL CLASIFICATION In DC, Language, Form , Period and Author are the three characteristics used in classifying the universe of subjects going with the main class literature. There are six different succession in which these three characteristics can be used. But DC has rightly chosen the succession: Language, form, period, and Work as most relevant to the purpose of classification of books –which is the convenience of the readers. 2), COLON CLASSIFICATION a) In, CC, Language, Form, Author, and Work, are the four characteristics used in classifying the same universe of subjects. Out of twenty-four succession possible, CC has rightly chosen the succession: language, Form, Author, and Work as most relevant. The implications of the choice in shelf arrangement are fully discussed in the CC b) Substance and Problem are two characteristics used in classifying the universe of subject going with the main class Chemistry, In Ed 1(1933) the succession prescribed for these characteristics was: Problem, Substance, While doping reference service on floor duty , it was found that this succession did not give the satisfaction to readers In other words , it was not relevant to the purpose of the readers, Therefore, their succession was changed into Substance, Problem, in Ed 2(1939) Reference: Ranganathan, S. R. Prolegomena to Library Classification. 3rd ed., New Delhi: Asia Publishing House, 1967.