CHOICE OF SCHEME FOR CLASSIFICATION - Indian Statistical ...

categories which can be used independently to form compounds and within which the
terms can be arranged in hierarchies" (20). This spells out exactly what CC has achieved
and demonstrated during the last forty years.
8.5 Japan
Shigenori Hamada, President of the Japan Information Centre of Science and
Technology: "India has made a great contribution to the field of documentation and
library science ... I firmly believe that India gives a great stimulus to the foreign
countries, especially to Asian countries, by showing the various energetic activities such
as the establishment of the Documentation Research and Training Centre" (16).
8.6 United Kingdom
1 Classification Research Group, London: "Need for a faceted classification: The
enumerative schedules ... fail to display correct relations between terms [isolate
ideas] ... A type of schedule is needed which allows a given genus to be subdivided
in more than one way, to give several sets of subclasses, each of which is a
homogeneous group of collateral species. Such a schedule is in fact a faceted
classification" (5). This is a true description of the essence of CC.
2 W C Berwick Sayers, the author of several books on classification and
formerly Lecturer in Classification in the School of Librarianship of the
University of London: "The scheme [CC] and particularly the analytic and
synthetic methods associated with it, have influenced recent classification
study greatly, even to fascination" (73). "CC has introduced ideas of value;
one of them, the Octave Device, adopted by the International Federation for
Documentatation in 1948 for use with the UDC, is probably important" (72).
3 B I Palmer, Education Officer, Library Association, London: "Ranganathan has
systematised the study of classification into principles, rules, and canons, ...
which have worked a revolution in our subject, and changed it from a dull
theory with apparently little relevance to practise into an insicive intellectual
tool which could be used to analyse existing schemes or to help in the
construction of new ones" (25).
8.7 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
E I Shamurin: "Ranganathan aims to uncover the internal structure of the principles
of the development of scientific library and bibliographic classification providing ... a
correct deeply thought out organisation of recorded knowledge in all its divisions and
subdivisions ... Bypassing it and ignoring it while developing new current scientific
library classification is impossible" (74).
8.8 United States of America
1 Dr Jesse H Shera,Dean of the School of Library Service, Case Western Reserve
University: "The great contribution of Dr Ranganathan into this taxonomic world of