Prolegomena to Library Classification
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...Faceted classification was introduced by Ranganathan in the late 1930s [6] and is widely used in libraries throughout Europe and India....
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...This ensures that indexers apply the same terms to describe the same or similar concepts, thus reducing the probability that relevant resources will be missed during a user search ( Ranganathan, 1967...
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...This ensures that indexers apply the same terms to describe the same or similar concepts, thus reducing the probability that relevant resources will be missed during a user search (Ranganathan, 1967) (e.g. ‘car’, ‘automobile’, ‘motorcar’, or ‘motor vehicle’, etc.)....
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...Ranganathan (1960) is generally credited with introducing the concept of facet analysis in his Colon Classification and in his theoretical writings (Ranganathan, 1967); although it is only fair to say that a number of earlier writers had advanced similar notions, albeit in a more limited manner[1]....
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...is generally credited with introducing the concept of facet analysis in his Colon Classification and in his theoretical writings ( Ranganathan, 1967...
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