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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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The example below from Joyce Saricks shows how the traditional subject access tools of subject headings and Dewey numbers fail to adequately convey those characteristics of a book that would make it of interest to a reader David Laskin's Children's blizzard, a gripping account of the deadly storms that raged across the Midwest in 1888, turns up in my library system in 977 or 978 (history) and in 551.
Decimating Dewey: introducing a bookshop arrangement for shelving the ... by Hopkins, Sarah / Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services
The pathfinders briefly summarize the scope of the topic and list catalog subject headings, key words and Dewey numbers, Web sites, and print resources.
Middle school pathfinders; guiding student research by Reference & Research Book News
We decided each student would choose one range of Dewey numbers and render drawings and images representing the types of books found in that range.
Dewey Decimal System by Hudelson, Nancy / School Arts
 
 
 
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