Abstract:
The Dewey Decimal Classification System is the basic standard used to
organize the information resources collected in libraries. This classification
method organizes the universal knowledge using Hindu-Arabic numerals
from 000 to 999. In this regard, there are some problems in organizing
Geography textbooks. Especially today; the Geography curriculum found in
the University curriculum has expanded and developed into an
Interdisciplinary Science filed that incorporates various other disciplines.
However, the Geography textbooks cannot be organized into a single volume
within the given numerical codes 910 and 913-919, which was refered by
the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Modern Geography textbooks are
not organized in a number construction like Philosophy, Religion and Art.
For example, the branches of Human Geography include Political
Geography; Cultural Geography and Economic Geography, which have to be
organized under the main category of Social Science (300). Similarly, the
main branches of Physical Geography are Topography, Geomorphology and
Meteorology, Climate Geography, Atmosphere and Rocks, and Oceanography have to be organized under the main category of Science
(500). The primary purpose of this study is to identify the Geographical
textbooks scattered in different places and propose strategies that will make
it easier for the reader to meet their needs. For this research, descriptive
methods were used. This study recommends that the library shall develeop
and maintain an ‘Athority File of Subject Headings’ to organize the
Geography Textbooks. Particulalrly this research concludes that organizing
Geography textbooks under the Class code 550 will be a solution to bring the
Geography textbook under one umbrella for the readers rather than
organizing the Geography textbooks under the DDC’s given main category
(910).
