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Dewey Decimal Classification

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Dewey Decimal Classification

 or Dewey Decimal System

System for organizing the contents of a library based on the division of all knowledge into 10 groups. Each group is assigned 100 numbers. Subdivisions eventually extend into decimal numbers; for example, the history of England is placed at 942, the history of the Stuart period at 942.06, and the history of the English Commonwealth at 942.063. The system was first formulated in 1873 by Melvil Dewey. Many libraries add a book number created from the Cutter, or Cutter-Sanborn, Tables, which further specify author and genre. The Library of Congress Classification has largely replaced the Dewey system.



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Two large classification systems were developed to address this need and were put into widespread use: the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Library of Congress Classification.
b) Numerically by Dewey Decimal classification number
The opinion that using traditional categories and academic disciplines as the basis for a bibliographic classification system was a mistake indicated Brown's belief that the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), which was the major system used in Great Britain and the United States at the time, was unsuitable for British libraries.
 
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