Treatment of the Subject Descriptors on Infants in Various Editions of Dewey Decimal Classification

摘要

Purpose: This paper has been written to explore the subject development on infants from the related subject descriptors in DDC and to exhibit the treatment of different subjects on infants in different DDC editions.Methodology: In order to investigate the objectives or purpose stated earlier, it has been intended to adopt assessment and evolution study. DDC editions have been thoroughly searched to collect data on infants. Qualitative assessment of the subject descriptors has been done to exhibit their edition wise treatment.Findings: Medicine and Health (610) class holds the maximum infant related subjects. Infancy, Infants -social aspects, Infancy-music, Infant baptism-music, Infanticide-demographic effect, Infanta-legal status-constitutional law-these subjects come in the 20th edition onwards and hint at their recency in the evolution of universe of subjects. Similarly Infanticide, Physical and psychological health of infants, Education of infants receive treatment almost from the dawn of DDC intensifying their ancient origin. Example notes are transformed into Including notes in the later editions of DDC and the later editions hold'See 'references more than 'See also 'references.Originality/Value: This paper tries to assess the subject development on infants from the related subject descriptors in DDC which has not been done earlier.