CC 7 : An evaluation of its development in three planes

The new edition of Clon Classification (CC7) brought out after a long interval, has incorporated most of the developments in the idea plane and notational plane reported in Libary Science with a Slant to Documentation and DRTC Annual Seminar volumes during the last two decades, making it a «freely faceted» scheme. But at the same time some errors have crept into it which are bound to create problems for the users. Both these aspects have been critically examined here drawing comparison, where necessary, with the previous edition of the scheme