10.24+Practice+Classification



=** READ **=
 * ** Chapter 6 - Classification ** (Skim pp. 99-104)
 * ** 082 $a Dewey Decimal Classification Number **
 * ** 092 $a Dewey Decimal Classification Number (Locally produced number rather than from the DDC) **
 * **introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System, Edition 15, from OCLC** @http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/abridged.en.html
 * **DDC 23 Summaries @http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/dewey/DDC%2023_Summaries.pdf**


 * **For those without ready access to //Dewey Decimal Classification//, here is what it looks like. Your librarian should have a copy you can borrow.**


 * **By all means use this reproduction from 1989 (Edition 20) of //Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index// as a means for classifying material in the rest of the class. I find it easier to use these volumes if I download the PDF files to my computer. It is easier to find specific information using the find feature than trying to scan through the Web version.**
 * **@https://archive.org/details/deweydecimalcla01dewe (Volume 1 - Introduction and Tables)**
 * **@https://archive.org/details/deweydecimalcla02dewe (Volume 2 - Schedules 000-599)**
 * **@https://archive.org/details/deweydecimalcla03dewe (Volume 3 - Schedules 600-999)**
 * **@https://archive.org/details/deweydecimalcla04dewe (Volume 4 - Relative Index and Manual)**

While the dividing line between LC and Sears subject headings may not always be clear, the classification scheme that you will use will most assuredly be the Dewey Decimal System. In this chapter pay attention to the discussion about LC but pay particular scrutiny to the sections on Dewey. Since none of you are going to start a collection from scratch, you will want to compare Dewey numbers of new material to material in the collection. You generally want to have new items added to the collection with topics you already have in the same Dewey area. As with assigning subjects, classifying material is just as much art as it is science. You will see numerous instances where catalogers don't agree on the same Dewey number.

We will be adding only two MARC fields this week: 082 $a and 092 $a (092 is not one that you will use, but one you may find in your copy cataloging.)

=PRACTICE 1 - Do this on your own. = 6G (pp. 104-105) -- For this exercise use Classify @http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ and enter the subjects in the "Subject Heading" box and see how close you get to the answers on page 151.


 * For the purposes of this class, do not expect that you will have a detailed Dewey number with numerous digits after the decimal. See if you can get the number BEFORE the decimal. The numbers after the decimal are classifying the item closer than you will do so in a school library, for the most part. **

PRACTICE 2 - Do this on your own.

 * For this exercise, I would like for you to use the Sears List of Subject Headings found at JCKL. That database will give you the Dewey number as well as Sears subjects for a topic. I am not real happy with this database but I would like for you to use it at least once. Using the subjects provided by Google at the bottom of the page as a starting point, then go to the database, look up a subject that you think most closely identifies the item to be cataloged, and see what Dewey number you would apply to this book.**

Want to check and see how you did? Go to Classify and type in the title or title and author and see what the most frequent Dewey number is for the book I've assigned for this section.

 * Title || Author || URL ||
 * Answer Them Nothing || Debra Weyermann || @http://books.google.com/books?id=4EOdBM0kTsYC&source=gbs_slider_gbs_user_shelves_1031_homepage ||
 * Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation || Charles Glass || @http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=SInGHEUZx64C&source=gbs_slider_user_shelves_7_homepage ||
 * Grimm’s Fairy Tales || Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm || @http://books.google.com/books?id=FM-AAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_slider_gbs_user_shelves_1040_homepage ||
 * Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation || Albert Einstein || @http://books.google.com/books?id=CyUQAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_slider_gbs_user_shelves_1040_homepage ||
 * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding || John Locke || @http://books.google.com/books?id=vjYIAAAAQAAJ&source=gbs_slider_gbs_user_shelves_1040_homepage ||
 * Tiger Woods || Jason Glaser || @http://books.google.com/books?id=0hE3r48FgI4C&source=gbs_slider_gbs_user_shelves_1031_homepage ||
 * The Russian Civil War || Evan Mawdsley || https://books.google.com/books?id=yBDFwj6Ya1wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=russian+civil+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAWoVChMI-Yq5oNmuyAIVRpiACh3HhwJ1#v=onepage&q=russian%20civil%20war&f=false ||
 * The Prophet || Kahil Gibran || @http://books.google.com/books?id=6D4B-dlDICsC&as_brr=3&source=gbs_slider_subject_list_homepage ||
 * The Prince || Niccoló Machiavelli || @http://books.google.com/books?id=nZ09AAAAcAAJ&as_brr=3&source=gbs_slider_subject_list_homepage ||

PRACTICE 3 - Because you will end up with different subject tracings (probably) post your work to DISCUSSION Bb in order for us to compare your answers.
 * For this exercise, use your favorite copy cataloging site and see if you can find a Dewey number and two subject tracings for these items (none are books).** Because Dewey numbers and subject tracings are so closely related for this last practice come up with a **Dewey classification number for each** of the following as well as **2** **subject headings for each**. Format the subject headings as you would in a MARC record. We will discuss subject headings shortly. The subject tracings need to be formed correctly with the correct subdivisions. You will most likely **not** be able to find MARC records for these items in this assignment. In order to get started, do the following:
 * 1) Look at the item to be cataloged and get an idea of what the topic is of the item to be cataloged. Scan the site, read the background information, etc.
 * 2) Look in your favorite copy cataloging source and if you can't find a MARC record for the exact item, then look for something SIMILAR and see if the Dewey and subjects would work for what has been assigned.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for:


 * ** Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster by Allan J. McDonald and James R. Hansen (title I have assigned -- now come up with a Dewey and two subject tracings as below:) **
 * ** 082 $a 363.12 **
 * ** 650 $a Whistle blowing $z United States **
 * ** 651 $a United States $x Politics and government **


 * // The Blue Skunk Blog // by Doug Johnson @http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/ ( This is a blog.)
 * // Beverly Sills // by Larry Strachan @http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/ ( This is a Web site.)
 * Mimidex: Free Online Dictionary/Thesaurus and More @http://www.memidex.com/
 * // God on Trial // @http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173494/ (You would be assigning a Dewey number to the motion picture.)
 * // African Trade Networks (Wonders of Africa Series). // To get the information about what to catalog about this video, you have the teacher's guide that came with the video: @http://www.libraryvideo.com/guides/V6301.pdf ; here is where you ordered the video from @http://www.socialstudies.com/c/product.html?nocache@2+s@oXhwHgwMEyYRI+record@TF39736
 * // The Very Hungry Caterpillar // - a video that you ordered from Amazon. @http://www.amazon.com/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Other-Stories/dp/B000BMGEJI/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1299007589&sr=1-1

HOW I AM GOING TO CHECK YOUR DEWEY NUMBERS AND SUBJECT TRACINGS
 * Go to a source like Access Pennsylvania and search by Dewey number to see if your classification number seems reasonable based on other items in this database
 * Go to OCLC Classify < @http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ >, type in the subject that you are cataloging; click on the subject heading with the highest number of results; click on an appropriate title for the subject heading and look at the Summary for that subject. Here is an example of what searching "information literacy" tells me as the most common Dewey number associated with this subject heading is 028.7 (almost 100% of the time)
 * Use the Expert Search in WorldCat  and search on the Dewey number to see if you are in the right ball park. Here's how: < @http://screencast.com/t/diRsWuHXI>.

Turn in your answers for practices 2 and 3 in a word processing document or a link to a Google Doc in a word processing document and upload your results to the DISCUSSION BOARD section of Blackboard. Discuss any revelations or problems that you had with the practice set. Compare your answers and fuss with each other about the differences you have in the Dewey numbers you have assigned.

Thoughts About Classification


= How I check your Dewey Classification Number = Screencast: @http://screencast.com/t/IA71VhBkiq

I generally to go MOBIUS, OhioLink, or Library of Congress to check the formation of and the accuracy of your DDC.

INSTANT CHECK: I go to this list to see if the **division and/or section** of your Dewey number makes sense @https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes