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Thank you! What a lovely and informative post. For all it's faults as a subject search system, I wish Amazon had adopted Dewey Decimal for their book selling. Amazon's subject classification system for books is all over the place, and some categories and sub-categories are laugh-out-loud bad. Makes one pine for Dewey.
Search the catalogs of the public libraries that WorldCat lists as holding a copy of a book to see if any have assigned the book a Dewey number. The numbers may vary slightly from one library to another based on local guidelines and standards, but but they will give you an idea of the Dewey numbers that libraries have assigned to a specific book.
Within the section there is biography, nonfiction and fiction. Recently we made a manga section (next to graphic novel section. a different set of brightly colored labels and all shelved by title). Our patrons prefer it to everything lumped in as dewey. Most of the libraries in our system don't use dewey/741.5 for graphic novels.
Anything after a space is no longer dealing with the Dewey Decimal Classification system and is now part of the identifying information for a particular book (the string of characters as a whole is called a "call number"). Generally the subsequent blocks in the book's call number will have information roughly based on the title or author of the ...
Universal Decimal Classification is a library classification system as I've mentioned in previous submissions. While it's not perfectly suited to electronic libraries arranged on a filesystem, neither is it wholly unsuitable either. With some minor modifications, I believe it to be more than sufficient for the needs of hobbyists like ourselves ...
Dewey Decimal system problems. This one is specifically about religion 200s. It really bothers me that systematically the religion section is 80% or more Christianity. 210-219 is supposed to be about the concept of religion, belief and the human existence. And 290-299 is supposed to be about world religions.
Use the Library of Congress Classification. A lot of books come with the classification already stamped beside the copyright info. This is the system that every university library that I've ever been to uses. Actual librarians are even moving away from the Dewey Decimal system. A friend of mine is doing a Masters in Library Science and she told ...
Magic and the Dewey Decimal System. Question. Hey! I'm writing a fantasy book that's basically modern-day America with magic. The main character is in college and has to research something relating to magic and I'm not super familiar with the Dewey Decimal System, but if magic existed, where do you think it might fall in the system? 1. Add a ...
The Dewey decimal system is really cool—the numbers narrow in to an ever more specific subject. 700s are “the arts,” 746s are “textile arts,” 746.4 narrows in even further to “needlework,” 746.44 is “embroidery” (we’re so close!!), and 746.443 is “cross stitch.”. I found all kinds of cross stitch books I’d never heard ...
The Dewey Decimal System is a way to arrange these topics such that they come in a reasonable order of continuously-related things. The two topics listed here, are ends of a range of topics covered in the Dewey Decimal System, thus, presumably are related. This is not how Dewey is set up, just how the library separated the shelves.