There are five fundamental categories in Ranganathan's Colon Classification system: Time, Space, Energy, Matter, and Personality. The document provides examples of how to assign notation to documents using these categories and the facet analysis technique. Key symbols are assigned to each category (such as ' for Time) and documents are broken down into their constituent facets which are then combined using the assigned symbols to provide a unique classification number.

1. By
Pritee Sharma
Assistant Professor ( A.C.)
School of Library & Information Science
Five Fundamental Categoriese of
CC

2. Five Fundamental Categories
 There are five fundamental category:
S. No. Name of Categories Symbols
1. TIME [T] ‘ (Single Inverted
Comma)
2. SPACE [S] . (Dot)
3. ENERGY [E] : (Colon)
4 MATTER [M] ; (Semicolon)
5. Personality ‘ (Comma)

3. Time [‘]
 Times gives the least difficulty in identification…
Ex: Year, Centaury, Decade etc.
1980 Deacde
1Centuary BC
2020,2021

4. Space [.]
 After Time space is the second most least difficulty to
identify the Space.
 Example: Countries, State, City, Continents etc.

5. Energy[:]
 After the Time and Space its a little bit difficult to
identify …but easier to Matter & Personality.
 Examples: L – Medicine 3 – Dignosis
 5- Prevention 55- Control
 6- Treatment 7- Surgery
 73- Plastic Surgery

6. Matter [;]
Matterial
(Medicine, Trade, Book)
Property
(Psychology, Disease,
Blood cancer)
Matter
(Glass,Gold, paper currency,
coal etc. )

7. Personality [,]
 It is the most difficult categories to identify,
 Ranganthan Sir Defines the Wholes and organs, parts,
constituents )etc., (संपूर्ण अंग, भाग और घटक।
 Ex: University Library, Head, Neck ( Parts of Body),
Nervous system , Digestive system, Parliament,
Loksabha Rajsabha etc.

8. Examples-1
 Classification of books in Indian national library during 1991
 Classification=51 (Energy)
 India=44 (Space)
 1991=N91 (Time)
 National lib.= 13 (Personality)
 Book=43 (Matter)
 Facet Formula 2[P];[M]:[E] [2P]
 Class No. 213;[43]:[51].[44]’[N91]

9. Example-2
 Circulation of periodicals in University Libraries in India up to
the 1970’s
 India =44 (Space)
 Circulation=6 (Energy)
 Periodiclas= 46 ( Matter)
 1970 = N70 ( Time)
 University Libraries = 34 (Personality)
 Class No. 234;46:6.44’N70

10. Example-3
 Reference services in national library
 Ref. Service (Energy)=7
 National Library = 13 (Personality)
 2[P];[M]:[E][P]
 Class No: 213:7

11. Example-4
 Cataloguing Periodicals University libraries Punjab
2016
 Fish Breeding in West Bangal
 Survey of Law libraries in India 2010
 Hindi = 152
 Drama=2
 Facet Formula : OP,P2P3,P4
 Class No: O152,2

12. Examples
 English Speeches of Dr. A. P. J Abdulkalm born on
1931
 Facet Formula : OP,P2P3,P4
 OP, P2P3,P4
 Class No. : O111,5N31