Сlassification culture of the Russia
Classification culture - a set of achievements of the country in the field of classification systems (CS): the study of their history and theory, the creation of own systems and the development of foreign experience, publications and options, practice of application. It is told about the achievements of Russia: works on the history of library CS, the directions of theoretical studies. For example, he CS history is well studied - from ancient times to the present day. Interesting CS were developed in the 18-19th century (for the largest and some university libraries). Schedules of the foreign CS - complete translation of the Colon Classification and and the Dewey Decimal Classification into Russian was published. Published Russian UDC retranslation in 10 volumes. The country has CS, recognized by the international community as the National System of Russia (firstly published in the years 1961-1968 in the 30 books). Contemporary classification practice is distinguished by the presence of variants of schedules - full, medium and abridged, in book and machine-readable form. The experience of developing classification schedules for children's and school libraries is unique. The conclusion is made: Russia certainly has a high level of classification culture.