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Rider’s International Classification short Note

 Fremont A. Rider, an American librarian known for his advocacy of microforms in libraries, developed a general scheme called the "International Classification." Published in 1961, it aimed to arrange books in general libraries. The scheme consisted of 26 main classes represented by Roman capitals. The main classes are as follows:

A Generalia

B Philosophy and Psychology

C/I History and Geography

J/N Social Sciences

O Business & Industry

P Military Science

Q/S Physical Sciences and Technology

T/V Biology/Medicine/Agriculture

W Fine Arts / Music

X/Z Language and Literature

Each main class was further divided alphabetically up to three letters, resulting in a total of 17,576 class numbers. Rider stated that his scheme, being broader in scope, would not undergo revision, as broader schemes require less frequent revisions. However, the International Classification scheme did not gain traction and was never implemented or widely recognized. It was considered an experimental system that never found practical use and was eventually forgotten by textbook writers. The scheme's broad arrangement places social sciences, science and technology, and humanities in that order, without adhering to any specific order of classes. It did not align with the prevailing trends of faceted systems and lacked the depth classification needed to accommodate the rapidly expanding knowledge of the time.

The Bibliographic Classification short note

 Henry Evelyn Bliss, a scholar in library classification, developed the Bibliographic Classification (BC) system between 1940 and 1953. He believed that there exists a natural order of main classes based on scientific and educational consensus. The order of main classes in BC is as follows: