Serbin O. The history, the current state and the development perspectives of library-bibliographic classifications in Ukraine

The dissertational work is dedicated to historical aspects of creating and usage of some of classification systems: "Classification of sciences Sen-Simon - Kont", "Dewey Decimal Classification", Charles Cutter's "Expansive classification", "Library of Congress Classification", "Colon classification" of S.R. Ranganatan. The research on the prerequisites and on the basic aspects of the issue is made, and the analysis of the structure of "International decimal bibliographic classification" - first classification system which has been published in Ukraine in Ukrainian - is presented. The periodization history of the issue of decimal library classifications in the Ukrainian is made. There are: 1-st stage (1919 - 1938); 2-nd stage (1938 - 1961); 3-rd stage (1961-1971); 4-th stage (1971 end. - 70th). Also it is given the history of creation and issues of "Library-bibliographic classification". The basic historical aspects of introduction of "Library-bibliographic classification" in Ukrainian territory is investigated and described. Its role in the further development of classification forms in our country is defined. The actual state of affairs in the aspect of the classification mechanism's existence and development in Ukraine is described. Two of basic used today systems are determined, and the perspectives for their further scale increase in Ukrainian practice are analyzed. These two systems are the series of issue of "Rubricator of VNLU" and the issue of "Universal decimal classification" published in the Ukrainian in 2000. As a result of dissertational research, it has been made the typology of information retrieval languages and has been presented the conceptual model Index conglomerate as the physical embodiment of the Conglomerate of information retrieval languages. Keywords: classification, indexation, ordering, cataloguing, information retrieval language, conglomerate.