Bliss Classification Association : BC Bulletin

Bliss Classification Association : BC Bulletin

The Bulletin was published annually and was free to members of the Association. It contains revisions and amendments to the schedules. Publication of the Bliss Classification Bulletin, ISSN 0520-2795, is currently suspended. the last issue published being no. 53, 2011. We have had difficulties because we lost the editor; we hope to publish further issues at some time, but we cannot say when. We increasingly see this web site and our discussion list LIS-BCA as the main channel for communication to and between members. All issues from previous years are available here in pdf format:

Vol.I: no.1, 1954 | no.2, 1955 | no.3, 1955
Vol.II: no.1, 1957 | no.2, 1959 | no.3, 1963
Vol.III: no.1, 1964 | no.2, 1965 | no.3, 1966
Vol.IV: no.1, 1967 | no.2, 1968 | no.3, 1969 | no.4, 1970
Vol.V: no.1, 1971 | no.2, 1972 | no.3, 1973 | no.4, 1974
Vol.VI: no.1, 1975 | no.2, 1977 | no.3, 1978 | no.4, 1979
Vol.VII: no.1, 1980 | no.2, 1981 | no.3, 1982 | no.4, 1983
No. 26, 1984 | No. 27, 1985 | No. 28, 1986 | No. 29, 1987 | No. 30, 1988 | No. 31, 1989 | No. 32, 1990
No. 33, 1991 | No. 34, 1992 | No. 35, 1993 | No. 36, 1994 | No. 37, 1995 | No. 38, 1996 | No. 39, 1997
No. 40, 1998 | No. 41, 1999 | No. 42, 2000 | No. 43, 2001 | No. 44, 2002 | No. 45, 2003 | No. 46, 2004
No. 47, 2005 | No. 48, 2006 | No. 49, 2007 | No. 50, 2008 | No. 51, 2009 | No. 52, 2010 | No. 53, 2011

Notes on some of the back numbers:

Notes on Vols. I-VII
The image quality of the early issues is not good enough for reliable optical character recognition. The search function within the pdf files is therefore not available in most of them and when it is present it should not be relied on.
The numbering of early issues is described in a note on page 2 of issue 26.
B27-1985: pagination is continuous for pages 1-14, then odd numbers only for pages 15-27. The backs of these sheets of amendments were intentionally blank.
B30-1988: similarly 37 and 39 were single-sided, unbacked sheets. This issue contains the findings of the Bliss User Survey of 1987-88 (pp 11-17); also an enormous number of amendments to Class T.
B31-1989: pp. 7-11 are a reprint of Douglas Foskett's article "Thoughts on revising a bibliographical classification scheme" which appeared in International forum on information and documentation, 14(1), January 1989.
B34-1992: pp.16-24 are a reprint of the outline of Mathematics as published.

Two older articles from the Bulletin are available as follows:

A user's experience of BC2 | Review of the BC2 training course

The Editor is always pleased to consider articles for publication. The deadline is 1 May each year.

Copy should be sent to:

Alan Stevens
Editor, BC Bulletin

bulletin@blissclassification.org.uk