The National Library of Montenegro’s request for the allocation of UDC codes for the Montenegrin language and Montenegrin literature was adopted and approved. This request was officially sent to the UDC Consortium (whose seat is in the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague) in 2021. At the same time, the consortium assigned UDC codes for the Bosnian language and Bosnian literature.
UDC code for Montenegrin language is 811.163.44 and code for Montenegrin literature (based on the code assigned to language) is 821.163.44. Although amendments to the UDC tables (MRF 13) are still being prepared and will be published in 2024, after the release of the cumulative “Extensions & Corrections to the UDC”, this change in the UDC tables has already been “decided and approved”.
The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is an international hierarchical system of library and bibliographic classification and the most translated classification scheme for all areas of knowledge in the world. Its authors are Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontaine and it was first published in French at the end of the 19th century. Since then, it has been changed and supplemented many times. To professionally classify a publication according to the UDC system means to use artificial language and symbols to mark its content and thereby determine its place in the system of scientific and professional knowledge. In this way, the user can reach not only the desired publication, but also other publications on the same or related topic.
The symbols used in the UDC classification are universally recognizable (Arabic numbers and orthographic signs) and are used in the most world’s libraries.
By obtaining these UDC codes, another very important issue for the Montenegrin language and Montenegrin literature was solved, after Montenegro received the international code for the Montenegrin language (cnr) in December 2017 within the framework of the ISO 639 international standard, also at the request of the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.
The National Library of Montenegro’s request for the allocation of UDC codes for the Montenegrin language and Montenegrin literature was adopted and approved. This request was officially sent to the UDC Consortium (whose seat is in the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague) in 2021. At the same time, the consortium assigned UDC codes for the Bosnian language and Bosnian literature.
UDC code for Montenegrin language is 811.163.44 and code for Montenegrin literature (based on the code assigned to language) is 821.163.44. Although amendments to the UDC tables (MRF 13) are still being prepared and will be published in 2024, after the release of the cumulative “Extensions & Corrections to the UDC”, this change in the UDC tables has already been “decided and approved”.
The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is an international hierarchical system of library and bibliographic classification and the most translated classification scheme for all areas of knowledge in the world. Its authors are Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontaine and it was first published in French at the end of the 19th century. Since then, it has been changed and supplemented many times. To professionally classify a publication according to the UDC system means to use artificial language and symbols to mark its content and thereby determine its place in the system of scientific and professional knowledge. In this way, the user can reach not only the desired publication, but also other publications on the same or related topic.
The symbols used in the UDC classification are universally recognizable (Arabic numbers and orthographic signs) and are used in the most world’s libraries.
By obtaining these UDC codes, another very important issue for the Montenegrin language and Montenegrin literature was solved, after Montenegro received the international code for the Montenegrin language (cnr) in December 2017 within the framework of the ISO 639 international standard, also at the request of the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.