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“ The objective of maximum use of [library] stock ... can be assisted in two ways:

(a) by personal assistance to readers. (b) By so arranging and displaying the collection that its resources are made as far as possible self-evident to the user. This will include the provision of catalogues and indexes …”.

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“ The objective of maximum use of [library] stock ... can be assisted in two ways:

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  1. (a) by personal assistance to readers (b) By so arranging and displaying the collection that its resources are made as far as possible self-evident to the user. This will include the provision of catalogues and indexes…” “ The objective of maximum use of [library] stock ... can be assisted in two ways: Jack Mills - Chapter 1 The problem of arrangement in a library in Library Classification 1960

  2. Current (1998) OPAC Opening Screen

  3. ACM Digital Library

  4. Now let us take a look at what the Dewey Decimal Classification has to offer for view-based searching

  5. Dewey Hierarchies in a View-based Searching OPAC

  6. Searching for Textiles on Dewey for Windows

  7. 600 Technology (Applied sciences) • …. • 670 Manufacturing • …. • 677 Textiles • 677.022 Designs (Working patterns) • 677.028 Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, • materials, products • 677.0282 Operations …. • 677.0285 Power equipment • 677.02852 Spinning machines • 677.02854 Looms and loom equipment • The Dewey Schedule for Textiles

  8. “The classifier will often find that to arrive at a precise number for a work it is necessary to build or synthesise a number that is not specifically printed in the schedules. Such built numbers allow for greater depth of content analysis…. • ….. Table 2 Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Persons. Notation from Table 2 is added through the use of one of several standard subdivisions from Table 1 (09, 025, 074, etc.), e.g., reading instruction in the primary schools of Australia is 372.40994 (372.4 reading instruction in primary schools + 09 Historical, geographic, persons treatment from Table 1 + 94 Australia from Table 2).” Instructions on synthesis

  9. A fully faceted classification can recognise the concept “textiles” as independent of the relationship to “geographic location” can be synthesised as • Geographic Location:Textiles or Textiles:Geographic Location. • e.g. Holmfirth:Sheep Wool. • The item being indexed could be retrieved from a higher level query of • West Yorkshire:Textiles

  10. View-based result from querying textiles

  11. T2--4 Europe Western Europe • T2--41 British Isles • T2--42 England and Wales • T2--43 Central Europe Germany • T2--44 France and Monaco • T2--45 Italian Peninsula and adjacent islands Italy • T2--46 Iberian Peninsula and adjacent islands Spain • T2--47 Eastern Europe Russia • T2--48 Scandinavia • T2--49 Other parts of Europe Problems of the division by 10

  12. Dewey Hierarchies in a View-based Searching OPAC

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