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Part-Time or Potentially Part-Time Businesses: Management

Library Journal's "Collection Development: Part-Time Businesses, March 1, 2011" discusses works helpful for people who want to start or run a part-time business.  Some of those works that emphasize management are mentioned here.

Few works are actually limited in scope to part-time businesses.  Most of the works in the Library Journal article focus on the kind of businesses that can be part-time or full-time—perhaps beginning part-time.  Nevertheless, browsing the Relative Index for "part-time" yields useful results:

Part-time enterprises—management                658.041
Part-time enterprises—management—initiation  658.1141

The entry for 658.041 Individual proprietorships has the notes:

Including part-time enterprises
Class here one-person enterprises, self-employment enterprises
Class executive management by entrepreneurs in 658.421
For one-person corporations, see 658.045

In the upward hierarchy for 658.041 is 658.04 Management of enterprises of specific forms, which has the see reference: "For initiation of specific forms of ownership organization, management of new enterprises of specific forms, see 658.114."  See references have hierarchical force.  The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit: How to Find and Grow Your Side Hustle in Any Economy is classed in 658.1141 Initiation of individual proprietorships (built with 658.114 Initiation of business enterprises by form of ownership organization plus 1 from 658.041 Individual proprietorships, following instruction at 658.114). 
 
Many of the works in the Library Journal article emphasize home-based businesses.  Browsing the Relative Index for "home-based" yields:

Home-based enterprises—management                658.0412
Home-based enterprises—management—initiation  658.11412

Works that focus on managing—or starting up and then managing—home-based businesses are classed in 658.0412 Home-based businesses, e.g., Ultimate Homebased Business Handbook: How to Start, Run and Grow Your Own Profitable Business and Start & Run a Real Home-Based Business. 

Works on starting up and then managing a specific form of business enterprise are classed with managing in 658.04+ rather than with starting up in 658.114+ because the comprehensive number is 658.04+.  How does one know that?  The see reference quoted above leads from 658.04 Management of enterprises of specific forms to 658.114 Initiation of business enterprises by form of ownership organization.  By definition, a see reference "leads from the stated or implied comprehensive or interdisciplinary number for a subject to component parts of the subject in numbers other than direct subdivisions of the original number or span."

The Manual note 658.04 vs. 658.114, 658.402 Management of enterprises of specific forms vs. Initiation of business enterprises by form of ownership organization vs. Internal organization can help in deciding between 658.04+ and 658.114+:

Use 658.04 for comprehensive works on management of enterprises of specific legal or ownership forms (e.g., corporations, partnerships). Use 658.114 for works that focus on initiating enterprises of specific legal or ownership forms—either starting a new business or converting an existing business to a new form, e.g., starting up a new individual proprietorship 658.1141, converting an individual proprietorship to a corporation 658.1145.

. . . . .

If in doubt, prefer in the following order: 658.04, 658.114, 658.402.

Some of the works in the Library Journal article focus on businesses in specific fields.  In the upward hierarchy for all the numbers mentioned thus far, at 658 General management, is the scatter see reference: "For management of enterprises engaged in a specific field of activity, see the field, plus notation T1—068 from Table 1, e.g., management of commercial banks 332.12068, management of automobile manufacturing 629.222068." The Handmade Marketplace, for example, is classed in 745.50688 Marketing management of handicrafts, built with 745.5 Handicrafts plus T1—0688 Management of distribution (Marketing).  Browsing the Relative Index for "marketing management" yields:

Marketing management    658.8
Marketing management    T1—0688

 

 

 

DDC 23 Workshop at OCLC

Join us for a full-day workshop on DDC 23 to be held 7 June 2011 at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio.  The whole Dewey editorial team will be present along with EPC Chair Caroline Kent and several EPC members.  The full agenda is here; registration is now open.  We hope to see you in June at OCLC!

DDC 23 is coming soon!

DDC 23, the new print edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, will be published next month.  The Dewey editorial team completed final review of the proofs last week, and later this week Bob Van Volkenburg and I will travel to the printer (Edwards Brothers) to run a press check of the new edition prior to final printing. 

We are now accepting pre-orders for DDC 23.  The four-volume new print edition is $399 USD, but there is a 10% discount for pre-orders received by July 1.   Pre-orders are scheduled for delivery to the Americas in May 2011, and to locations outside the Americas in July 2011.  For more information and to place an order, please visit the DDC 23 web site in your region:

Americas

United States –English

Canada—English 

Latin America and Caribbean—English 

 

Asia Pacific

Asia—English

Australia and New Zealand—English

 

Europe, Middle East and Africa

UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa —English

Middle East and North Africa—English

 

Worldwide

For countries not listed—English  

 

DDC 23: Preview of 340 Law

In the morning 10 March webinar "DDC 23: A Sneak Preview," there was a question: "Will the revisions of 340 have any impact on Option B for Law?" The answer is not to the option itself; however, some topics covered by the option may be affected. The same is true of other options in 340 Law.  Options A and B in the 340 Law schedule in DDC 22 were updated with the "New and Changed Entries" of November 2004; those updated instructions are in DDC 22 in WebDewey; they remain unchanged in DDC 23. The options in 340 Law are not affected by the changes in DDC 23 because the basic structure of 340 Law remains unchanged.  Most of the changes are expansions of existing provisions.

Here are two examples from the expansion of 345.01 Criminal courts.  The DDC 22 version of 345.01 Criminal courts has the including note: "Including . . . public prosecutors, public defenders . . . . ."  With the standard DDC 22 approach, works on public prosecutors or public defenders in a specific jurisdiction or area are classed in 345 Criminal law plus Table 2 notation for jurisdiction or area plus 01 from 345.01 Criminal courts, following instructions at 345.3–.9 Specific jurisdictions and areas.  If the Table 2 notation is T2—73 United States, the standard built number is 345.7301 Criminal courts in United States.  With Option B, works on public prosecutors or public defenders in a specific jurisdiction or area are classed in 34 plus Table 2 notation for jurisdiction or area plus 501 from 345.01 Criminal courts, following instructions at 342–349 Branches of law; laws, regulations, cases; law of specific jurisdictions, areas, socioeconomic regions.  If the Table 2 notation is T2—73 United States, the Option B built number is 347.3501 Criminal courts in United States. 

DDC 23 has specific numbers for public prosecutors and for public defenders:

345.012 General considerations, administration and personnel, legal aid

. . . .

345.012 62     Public prosecutors

                        Class here district attorneys

345.012 63     Public defenders

Consequently, both the standard and the Option B numbers for works on public prosecutors or public defenders will have extra digits at the end in DDC 23—but they will start out the same as in DDC 22. In DDC 22 The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor is classed in 345.7301 Criminal courts in United States; in DDC 23 it would be classed in 345.7301262 Public prosecutors in United States.  In DDC 22 Public Defenders:  Pragmatic and Political Motivations to Represent the Indigent, about United States public defenders, is classed in 345.7301 Criminal courts in United States; in DDC 23 it would be classed in 345.7301263 Public defenders in United States.

Another part of the law schedule with expansion in DDC 23—expansion that does not affect use of Option B—is 341.2422 European Union.  There are new numbers for bodies of the European Union, e.g., 341.242226 European Commission.  An example of a work now classed in 341.2422 that would be classed in the new number is The European Commission: An Essential Guide to the Institution, the Procedures and the Policies.  There are specific provisions for courts of the European Union, e.g., 341.2422284 Court of Justice of the European Communities. An example of a work now classed in 341.2422 that would be classed in the new number is The European Union and its Court of Justice.  The European Dewey Users Group (EDUG) 340 Law Working Group gave advice and assistance throughout 340 Law, including 345 Criminal law, but their advice was especially important with respect to the European Union. 

There is one important relocation in this part of the law schedule, a relocation strongly recommended by EDUG.  In DDC 23 the European Parliament is relocated to a notational subdivision of the number for the European Union: 341.242224 European Parliament [formerly 341.2424]. An example of a work now classed in 341.2424 that would be classed in the new number is Building Europe's Parliament: Democratic Representation beyond the Nation State.

DDC 23 Webinar

The “DDC 23: Sneak Preview” webinar presented twice on March 10 (and attended by 800+ Dewey users from around the world) is now available for playback or download here.  We will address some of the questions submitted by webinar participants over the next few weeks on this blog, starting tomorrow with an answer to the question about Option B in 340 Law.  Stay tuned!

Personal Finance: Debt Management

Debt management is a recurring theme in the news, especially during a recession and recovery period when governments, business enterprises, and individuals are all struggling. We mentioned management of public debt in an earlier blog: “Public Debt.”  Here are some news articles or advice columns about managing personal debt: “How to Cope with Financial Difficulties” (BBC), “CCCS Advice on Dealing with Debt” (Telegraph), and “If You Get Some Spare Cash, Time to Save and Pay Down Debt” (Washington Post).

Browsing the Relative Index for “debt management” yields:

Debt management (Business)    658.1526
Debt management (Personal)    332.02402
Debt management (Public)       336.36
. . . . .

The schedule entry 332.02402 Personal debt management has 332.024 Personal finance in its upward hierarchy.  Examples of works classed in 332.02402 Personal debt management are Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free, Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Out of Debt.

DDC Online Training: 900 and Table 2

(N.B. The link given for the Dewey online training web site below is new.  Later this year we will update the training materials to be consistent with DDC 23, at which time we will provide you with a different link.  Two clues will tell you where you are:  (1) the URL will include the edition number and (2) the color scheme of the PowerPoint presentations will correspond to the color of the print edition.)

Among the set of Basic course training modules recently posted to the Dewey online training web site is the PowerPoint presentation Introduction to 900 and Table 2; the presentation is accompanied by a set of exercises. [For further information about our overall online training effort, see our previous blog entry (which links to the former training web site).]

As a result of successfully completing this module, learners will be familiar with the overall structure of the 900s and will understand its relationship to Table 2; learners will also be able to identify when history, geographic treatment, and biography should be classed in the 900s vs. when they should be classed elsewhere.  This module introduces the three major add tables in the 900s, which learners will be able to use in building numbers in the 900s.     

This module presupposes some level of mastery of the principles taught in the Technical Introduction and Introduction to Table 1 modules.  In particular, learners need to be aware of methods for choosing the correct base number.  (If the Technical Introduction module isn’t fresh in learners’ minds, it might be helpful to use the Choice of Number Review module.)    

DDC Online Training: 800 and Table 3

(N.B. The link given for the Dewey online training web site below is new.  Later this year we will update the training materials to be consistent with DDC 23, at which time we will provide you with a different link.  Two clues will tell you where you are:  (1) the URL will include the edition number and (2) the color scheme of the PowerPoint presentations will correspond to the color of the print edition.)

Among the set of Basic course training modules recently posted to the Dewey online training web site is the PowerPoint presentation Introduction to 800 and Table 3; the presentation is accompanied by a set of exercises. [For further information about our overall online training effort, see our previous blog entry (which links to the former training web site).]

As a result of successfully completing this module, learners will be familiar with (1) the overall structure of the 800s, (2) aids that are available for building numbers in the 800s, and (3) circumstances in which Tables 3A, 3B, and 3C are used.  Using that background, learners will be able to build correct numbers in the 800s.        

This module presupposes some level of mastery of the principles taught in the Technical Introduction and Introduction to Table 1 modules.  In particular, learners need to be aware of methods for choosing the correct base number.  (If the Technical Introduction module isn’t fresh in learners’ minds, it might be helpful to use the Choice of Number Review module.)    

DDC Online Training: 700

(N.B. The link given for the Dewey online training web site below is new.  Later this year we will update the training materials to be consistent with DDC 23, at which time we will provide you with a different link.  Two clues will tell you where you are:  (1) the URL will include the edition number and (2) the color scheme of the PowerPoint presentations will correspond to the color of the print edition.)

Among the set of Basic course training modules recently posted to the Dewey online training web site is the PowerPoint presentation Introduction to 700; the presentation is accompanied by a set of exercises. [For further information about our overall online training effort, see our previous blog entry (which links to the former training web site).]

As a result of successfully completing this module, learners will be familiar with the scope of various types of arts in the DDC as well as relationships among them.  Learners will also be familiar with various modes of treating persons in the arts and works of art.  As with other modules, learners will be able to build numbers in this area of the schedules that depend on preference tables, preference instructions, add instructions, and/or add tables.    

This module presupposes some level of mastery of the principles taught in the Technical Introduction and Introduction to Table 1 modules.  In particular, learners need to be aware of methods for choosing the correct base number.  (If the Technical Introduction module isn’t fresh in learners’ minds, it might be helpful to use the Choice of Number Review module.)    

DDC Online Training: 400 and Tables 4 and 6

(N.B. The link given for the Dewey online training web site below is new.  Later this year we will update the training materials to be consistent with DDC 23, at which time we will provide you with a different link.  Two clues will tell you where you are:  (1) the URL will include the edition number and (2) the color scheme of the PowerPoint presentations will correspond to the color of the print edition.) 

Among the set of Basic course training modules recently posted to the Dewey online training web site is the PowerPoint presentation Introduction to 400 and Tables 4 and 6; the presentation is accompanied by a set of exercises. [For further information about our overall online training effort, see our previous blog entry (which links to the former training web site).]

As a result of successfully completing this module, learners will be familiar with the overall structure of the 400s and will be able to build numbers in the 400s that depend on preference tables, preference instructions, add instructions (especially those referencing Table 4 or Table 6), and/or add tables.

This module presupposes some level of mastery of the principles taught in the Technical Introduction and Introduction to Table 1 modules.  In particular, learners need to be aware of methods for choosing the correct base number.  (If the Technical Introduction module isn’t fresh in learners’ minds, it might be helpful to use the Choice of Number Review module.)