• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.5-23
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• 2006

The KDC is the most widely used classification system in the elementary school libraries of Korea, but it is only published in full edition. This study is to development abridged KDC edition for elementary school libraries as the subject of KDC. In order to do this, the present writer carried out as follows; to analyse the present state of an class in KDC, to analyse a distribution chart of a class in an practical books and to comes up with a plan of abridged KDC edition as the grounding in the foundation of volume a collection of books. The abridged edition for elementary school libraries is a structural hierarchy of the corresponding full edition which it is based, and is intended for general collections of 20,000 titles or less.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.105-124
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• 2019

This study was to suggest the improvement and the application of KDC 6 for classifying children's books by the literature review and survey. First, it was suggested to shorten the classification numbers by the divisions and subdivisions and to expand the classification numbers by sub-subdivisions according to the library-specific classification policy, using the subject statistics of the children's books held by 20 public libraries affiliated in Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and representative C libraries. Second, the knowledge picture books and the fairy tales were suggested to be classified according to its subject, and the fairy tales in each country were suggested to be classified by adding sub-subdivisions and genre subdivisions. Third, it was suggested to shelve by collection and location codes that were distinguished by the ages and the reading level for user, to prepare a standard guideline for shelving, and to implement the regular user education about the classification system. This study could contribute to the development of the KDC abridged version for children's books in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.87-96
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• 2005

초등학생관련 자료의 유별 현황 및 어휘분석을 바탕으로 초등학교도서관을 위한 KDC 간략판을 개발하고자 시도되었다. 즉, 분류표의 수정 전개 범위는 최대한 KDC 4판의 기본 틀인 유, 강, 목을 그대로 유지하면서 자료의 유별 분포도를 분석하여 분류항목을 세분하였으며, 초등학생의 특성을 반영하기 위한 구체적인 방법으로 KDC 분류명사를 추출하여 초등학생을 대상으로 설문조사한 결과 및 초등학생관련 자료의 실증적인 어휘분석을 종합하여 분류항목의 수정전개에 반영하였다. 이 연구에서는 초등학교도서관을 대상으로 하였지만 중등학교도서관에 대해서도 이와 같은 실증적인 유별 현황 및 어휘분석 방법을 적용하여 주기적으로 분류표의 개정 작업에 반영한다면 KDC가 학교도서관을 위해 보다 실공적인 분류표가 될 것이다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.299-320
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• 2008

This study examined the historical background and structural characteristics of the UDC(Universal Decimal Classification) standard edition which has been created from the entire content of the Master Reference File database. We made a comparison of the structural characteristics between UDC standard edition and Korean abridged edition. UDC is a hybrid of two kinds of documentary classification scheme, that is enumerative and analytico-synthetic, and its structure reflects this feature. It is found that UDC standard edition extended the universality and synthetic method using its auxiliary tables compare to Korean abridged edition.