JLIS abstracts

FOSKETT (DJ)

FOSKETT (DJ). More on Personality Fact. 17,1;1992;39-44

Describes the use of national synthesis or number-building in different classification schemes. Points out that the use of facet analysis by S R Ranganathan is an exact parallel with the central notion of General Systems Theory (GST). Explains that the Ranganathan's concept of "personality " facet seems to correspond rather closely with GST concept of a "whole" and "wholeness". Points out that one can easily