COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY SIMPLIFIED CLASSIFICATION (REVISED)
Prepared by: Rex Dotson
Date issued: January 30, 2002; revised June 16, 2003
Effective Date: June 16, 2003
To: All Bibliographic Services Depts.
· 920: General collective biographies of persons not associated with specific subjects (may or may not be limited to specific historical periods, geographical areas, or racial, ethnic, national groups). Also use for collective biographies of persons in publishing, librarianship, journalism, book collecting; for persons by sex (e.g., general biography of women not associated with specific disciplines or subjects); and for persons associated with subjects not provided for in 921-928.
· 921: Philosophers and psychologists
· 922: Religious leaders, thinkers, and workers; includes atheists and deists
· 923: Persons in social sciences (includes heads of state; politicians; persons in economics; criminals; persons in law; public administrators; military persons; social reformers; philanthropists; educators; persons in commerce, communications, transportation; explorers, geographers, pioneers)
· 924: Philologists and lexicographers
· 925: Scientists (e.g., astronomers, biologists, chemists, etc.) and mathematicians
· 926: Persons in technology (includes persons in medicine, engineering, agriculture, food and drink industry, management, chemical engineering, manufacturing, construction)
· 927: Persons in the arts (fine and performing) and recreation (sports and games)
· 928: Persons in literature, history, biography, genealogy (includes historians,
writers, literary critics)
· 929.2: Family histories; names of families are tagged on bib records as 600 30 as in: 600 30 Houston family. Double-cutter to the family name. If more than one family is discussed in the work, generally double-cutter to the family name given as the first 600 30