Colon Classification: A Student Companion

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Colon Classification: A Student Companion

Journal Title: Library Progress International - Year 2018, Vol 38, Issue 2

Abstract

The initial attraction of the book is its subtitle a student companion. The reviewer, also a tutor often wonders to suggest textbooks which help the students to prepare either for their examinations or serve as single-window textbook approach where the substantial portion of the syllabi is covered. This gives an instant relief, when the reviewer received the book Colon Classification: A Student Companion for the review. M. P. Satija, the author of the book, a well known scholar of S. R. Ranganathan, who produced dozens of literature before on Ranganathn, the pioneer library guru have surprised us while filling the gap of scarcity of textbooks, especially written with a classroom orientation. A preliminary glimpse of the table of content gives us an unusual impression of fourty three chapters, ranging little less to three hundred pages, but gradually this disappears as it is written so lucidly to make the students easy-going both from understating the theory and colon practice. Divided into two parts with eleven chapters, ‘theoretical principles’ subsided to the first part and rest to the second ‘practical application’. The author probably hinted for the students to go along with Ranganathan’s Colon Classification with the theoretical principles and its importance behind the legend’s greatest contribution to the field of classification. To begin with the layout of the text of colon classification, the succeeding chapter the structure of the system not only speaks the well organised, rather revealed the schematic design of a textbook. Interestingly all the chapters in the first part speak independent stories which collectively provide the wholesome picture of the logic behind colon classification. The random list of other chapters are, three common schedules, four common isolates, six main class … eight parallel schedules ten filling sequence. The second part is application aspect sequenced as per the original colon schedule which is rendered with the cursory look and serves the orientation aspect. As a reviewer, the critical observation on the volume is not many; as it fulfils major aspects of a textbook. Absolutely no objections about the part two of the volume, rather the complaints are the taxonomic sequence of the chapters. In the next edition, the author may come up with the changes. Students may find interesting in otherwise designed of the chapters, if it were the world of facet in which all the issues related to facet analysis and facet formulae with applications and illustrations could bring a utilitarian benefits of a textbook. Another strong aspect which could have adored the volume is a glossary of technical terms. In toto the book is wisely recommended to any university or academic library, more especially where courses on library and information science in any level are available. At the same time the volume Colon Classification: A Student Companion gives instant solace both to mentor and mentees in understanding colon classification.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain

Keywords

Colon Classification

EP ID EP547152
DOI 10.5958/2320-317X.2018.00038.7
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