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12 Length of base of notational system 2 3 0 3 1
13 Provision of connecting digit 3894 3 0 0 2
14 Hospitality in chain 6 2 2 0 2
15 Hospitality in array including extrapolation
and interpolation .. 6 2 1 0 1
16 Agency for promoting use 0 3 3 3
17 Permanent organization for development 7 0 3 3 3
Total 38 21 23 28
8.2 Impact of CC on World Thought and Practice
During the last thirty years the influence of CC and its new foundations and
methodology in classification has been slowly spreading. During the last twenty years its
impact on world thought in the theory and practice of classification has been unmistakable. Sec 83
to 87 give some excerpts indicating such an impact.
8.3 International Federation for Documentation (= FID)
1 Donker Duyvis, Secretary-General, FID: "We have in a spiritual sense a
stronger relation between CC and UDC, a stronger relation because
Ranganathan has been willing to act as leader for the theoretical study of
classification in the FID (FID Committee CA) ... I know that the task to bring
together the two main universal multi-dimensional and dynamic classification
is almost superhuman and I must confess to feel myself unable, even to fulfill
it in part. But if we can see one in whom we have confidence he will make at least
a serious attempt to unify, I think it is our wise friend from the East" (10).
2 International Conference of Libraries and Documentation Centres (Brussels,
1955). On the basis of a Group Meeting on Classification with special
reference to Facet Analysis held during the Conference, the following
resolution was passed at the Plenary Session on 16 September 1955: "The FID
recommends that a deeper and more extensive study should be made of the
general theory of classification, including facet analysis, and also of their
application in the documentation of specific subjects."
8.4 International Conference on Classification
1 In its letter of 20 December 1956, the Organising Committee of the International
Conference on Classification (Dorking, 1957) wrote to Insdoc, India's representative on FID:
"This Conference will be a development of all Dr Ranganathan's work in the last twenty
years and it will no doubt be a means of spreading interest in his work and appreciation of
it ... It is essential that the Indian Government should receive notice of the Conference"
(20).
2 Conclusion 2: "There is general agreement that the most helpful form of classification
scheme for information retrieval is one which groups terms [isolate ideas] into well-defined