Dewey Decimal Classification The guy who invented the

Dewey Decimal Classification

(The guy who invented the Dewey Decimal Classification System)

SO Why not come up with a way to organize non-fiction books in libraries so that people can easily find them?

Eureka! (Shouted librarians)

Dewey’s ingenious solution was to arrange all knowledge into ten very general categories which he then continued to divide into smaller and smaller topics. His plan was to find a way to put all books on the same subject together on the library

The Dewey Decimal System divides all non-fiction subjects into ten categories using a different set of call numbers for each category.

Thinking and feeling People Everything in the world NOT made by people Religion Languag e Everything in the world made by people What you do for fun Past events and places Poetry

Fiction books DO have Dewey Call But what numbers—for example, books by about fiction? American authors all have the Dewey number 810—but there are so many, we leave that off and shelve fiction by the first three letters of the author’s last name.

Remember that stuff about Call Numbers? Think of them now as 1. 0 7 9 Dewey Numbers ! 636. 7 1 03 863 330. 51 567. 912 5 2 5. 51 001 . 94 398. 2 796. 35476 943. 5302

General They’re 600 Domestic animals 636 Domestic Animals that are dogs 636. 7 Working dogs 636. 73 Working dogs that are German Shepherds Dewey Numbers And what subjects belong in this Dewey category? because they now mean something. Specific

Specific 636. 7375 Even more Specific 636. 73756 German Shepherds born in the U. S. German Shepherds born in Minnesota that were born in Anoka County

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