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Introduction
In this living world biology is present from ancient to
modern times. The concept of biology raised in 19 th
century. The biological sciences emerged from traditions
of medicine and natural history reaching back to ayurveda,
ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle and
Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world. This ancient
work was further developed in the Middle Ages, over 18 th
and 19 th centuries Biological Sciences such as botany and
zoology became increasingly professional scientific
disciplines. In the early 20 th century, the rediscovery of
Mendel’s work led to the rapid development of genetics.
In this way new disciplines developed rapidly.
According to the development of the subject library
scientists develop different library classification schemes.
So, to capture different changes, development, and
terminological changes in this discipline, classificationists
incorporate the same in library classification schemes.
This paper shows the development of the subject as well as
treatment and terminological changes based on different
editions of Dewey Decimal Classification scheme.
The Dewey Decimal Classification system is a proprietary
library classification system first published in the United
States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
Literature Review
In this paper, literature review deals with the survey of the
literature on different aspects of the Dewey Decimal
Classification in general and treatment of different subjects
particularly subjects on biological sciences in particular.
For this, literatures available in print and non-print media
are collected and few of those literatures are presented
below.
S. Basuki and A. S.Mulyani [2002] explored that the
problem of utilizing notation for classification on Islam
and the notation given in very limited for this
denomination. In this study they describe the effort made
by Indonesian and Islamic libraries to improve the class
number 297 in different editions of DDC since 1973 to
1987.
B. T. Gangu and R. P. Rao [2008] discussed about problem
of classifying the upcoming new subjects in Dewey
Decimal Classification scheme 18 th edition and problem
faced by librarians and classification experts who have to
deal with the limitation and insufficiency of the scheme
while handling the books dealing with new developments
in human knowledge. They have tried to explore the
problems and suggest solutions to overcome these
problems.
Z. Niculescu [2009] explored the evolution of different
editions of Dewey Decimal Classification from the
perspective of updating the terminology, reallocating and
expanding the main and auxiliary structure of Dewey
Indexing Language. This study present the comparative
analysis of DDC editions and mark on improving the
informational offer, basic index terms, development and
auxiliary notations.
P. Tutu [2017] discussed about the treatment of Pure
Sciences in Dewey Decimal Classification and Colon
Classification. This paper indicates the advantages and
disadvantages of the schemes and tried to design a new
scheme.
A. T. Poffenberger [1917] discusses the inferiority of the
Dewey’s decimal system of classification. The study
emphasized the need for a new scheme to satisfy both
logical demands of the classifier and the practical one of
the psychologist.
M. P. Satija [2013] described the history of the DDC since
its first publication in 1876. This paper will review the
features and changes in all previous editions, in
chronological order, detailing their respective editors.
Finally the history and features of the abridged, school and
the electronic editions of the system were examined and
highlighted the DDC’s major contribution to the science
and art of classification - proving that it is the mother of all
modern library classification systems.
R. Sweeney [1983] discussed about the 19 th edition of the
DDC. This study reviews the evolution of the
classification over the past thirty years, and indicates the
likely development in the 20 th edition and beyond.
The study looks into the development between the
feasibility of using the UDC’s revised religion scheme as a
frame work for an alternative view of 200 Religion in the
DDC. L.C. Mcllwaine and J. C. Mifchell [2006] explored
a potential model for future revision and investigate a
detailed mapping using Buddhism as a case study.
Objectives of the study
The objectives of the present study are:
i) To analyze the development of the subject
Biology in the light of DDC scheme.
ii) To find out the treatment of the subjects under the
class 570 and its sub-ordinate classes in DDC
scheme.
iii) To see the terminological changes of the subjects
treated under the classes under study.
iv) To know the inclusion and exclusion of the
subjects in the main class 570 and other subordinate
classes under it.
Scope and Methodology
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This article deals with the terminological changes, changes
of nomenclature and incorporation of the subjects under
the class 570 from 1 st edition to 23 rd edition of DDC. For
this, relevant portion of all the 23 editions of DDC has
been collected either from the Internet Archive or from the
print version. To fulfill the objectives of the study
necessary data have been collected from all the 23 editions
and organized through tables. A detail analysis of the
tables has been made to find out required results.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
To ascertain terminological changes of the subjects under
the class 570 in DDC and incorporation of different
subjects under it, relevant data have been collected and
organized under different tables and those tables are
analyzed considering the objectives of the study as
follows: