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	Let's Do Dewey
		American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science in the United States.
		Dewey graduated in 1874 from Amherst College and became acting librarian at that institution.
		The Dewey decimal system, using numbers and letters, coordinates materials on the same subject and on related subjects to make items easier to find on the shelves..
	www.mtsu.edu /~vvesper/dewey2.htm (1148 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's so great about the Dewey Decimal System?
		Dewey wrote, "My heart is open to anything that's either decimal or about libraries." But he disliked Shurtleff's approach, which he felt was inefficient.
		Dewey began by establishing a broad division of knowledge into basic categories, to which numbers were then assigned--crudely put, these are the numbers to the left of the decimal point.
		A derivative of the DDC is the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), an international adaptation of the Dewey system used extensively in Europe.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mdeweydecimal.html (3130 words)

	Dewey decimal classification system, - Dewey Decimal Classification System
		Dewey decimal classification system, - Dewey Decimal Classification System
		DDC, Dewey Decimal Classification, and Dewey are registered trademarks of OCLC maintained at libraries throughout the Hennepin County Library System.
		Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
	seeksys.com /seky/dewey-decimal-classification-system.html (1073 words)

	Dewey services [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
		The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is the world's most widely used library classification system.
		The four-volume print edition includes thousands of updates added to the system over the past seven years.
		All copyright rights in the Dewey Decimal Classification system are owned by OCLC.
	www.oclc.org /dewey (438 words)

	About DDC [OCLC - Dewey services]
		The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, devised by library pioneer Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and owned by OCLC since 1988, provides a dynamic structure for the organization of library collections.
		Now in its 22nd edition, and available in print and Web versions, the DDC is the world’s most widely used library classification system.
		Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification, DDC, OCLC and WebDewey are registered trademarks of OCLC.
	www.oclc.org /dewey/about (376 words)

	Library Center - Boulder Community Network - Serving Boulder County since 1994
		Dewey Decimal Classifications - Comprehensive list of all Dewey Decimal catagories from '000' Generalities to '999' Extraterrestrial Worlds.
		Library of Congress Classification System - The Library of Congress Classification System (LC System) is used to organize books in many academic and university libraries throughout the United States and world.
		Harvard University Libraries and Museums - The Harvard library system is the oldest in the United States and the largest academic library in the world.
	bcn.boulder.co.us /library/center.html (1356 words)

	JOHO - Sept. 3, 2004
		There seems to be a disturbing message hidden in the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the organizational scheme first published in 1876 and now used in 95% of US schools: Of the hundred numbers set aside for topics concerning religion, 88 — numbers 201-287 — are reserved for Christianity.
		Within the categories, Wayne A. Wiegand has argued that Dewey — who created the DDC when he was in his early 20s — was strongly influenced by his undergraduate education.
		In the interim, the library system wouldn't be a system at all.
	www.hyperorg.com /backissues/joho-sep03-04.html (4323 words)

	Dewey Decimal Classification - FAQ
		The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is a general knowledge organization tool that is continuously revised to keep pace with knowledge.
		One of Dewey's great strengths is that the system is developed and maintained in a national bibliographic agency, the Library of Congress.
		On the Dewey web site, selected new numbers and changes to the DDC are posted monthly; mappings between selected new Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Dewey numbers are posted biweekly; and mappings between selected new Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) and Dewey numbers are posted monthly.
	staff.oclc.org /~furnerj/dewey.htm (1058 words)

	Dewey Decimal System
		Before his system of classifying library books was adopted, many libraries relied on systems that filed books by size or color-cumbersome and not very useful methods at best.
		Dewey's aim was to create a system that would be simple enough for even casual users to understand, but complex enough to meet a library's expanding needs.
		This system, now in wide use, is even more detailed and has the advantage of being able to accommodate growth of knowledge in unexpected areas.
	www.victoriapacking.com /deweyinfo.html (359 words)

	Library - Dewey Decimal Classification System
		The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, like the Library of Congress Classification System, is a way of organizing knowledge and making it accessible.
		Although the DDC is the most widely used classification system in the world, it is most commonly found in public libraries and in curriculum collections.
		A call number in the Dewey Decimal System is read much like an LC call number, except for the fact that it does not begin with a set of letters.
	library.wcsu.edu /web/assistance/guides/a_locating/dewey (672 words)

	DEWEY DECIMAL HOME
		The Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC) is a system that classifies or categorizes nonfiction books into ten main divisions.These classes are further divided into ten subdivisions and the use of decimals allows for additional categories.
		The Dewey Decimal Classification System is the most widely used classification system in the world.
		Melvil Dewey, the youngest of five children, was born on December 10, 1851, in a small town in northern New York.
	www.nisk.k12.ny.us /birchwood/links/deweydecimal.html (419 words)

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		The Dewey Decimal System is a system used to classify, shelve, and find books in libraries by grouping them into 10 categories.
		Melvil Dewey was born in Adams Center, NY in 1851.
		The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify both nonfiction and fiction books.
	www.atlantic.k12.ia.us:16080 /~schuler/deweyweb (288 words)

	Lycos Retriever: Search results for dewey decimal system
		Though fictional works are classified in the Dewey Decimal system within the 800 class, Literature, many libraries choose to have a separate section for fiction in which the books are alphabetized by author.
		In the Dewey Decimal system, literary works are subdivided by their original language and then by form — poetry, fiction, or essay, for example — so that all works of fictional prose are not in a single place.
		The Dewey Decimal Classification is the most widely used library classification system in the world.
	www.lycos.com /info/dewey-decimal-system--numbers.html (881 words)

	Dewey and the Alien
		We are going to tell you how to remember what each of the Dewey hundreds groups represents.
		One day, while Melvil Dewey was walking in Central Park, he saw a UFO.
		Dewey got up from the ground and peeked out from behind a tree.
	library.thinkquest.org /5002/Alien/alien.htm (113 words)

	Dewey Decimal Classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes that, excluding the first class (000 Computers, information and general reference), are meant to proceed from the divine (philosophy and religion) to the mundane (history and geography).
		Except for general works and fiction, works are classified principally by subject, with extensions for subject relationships, place, time or type of material, producing classification numbers of not less than three digits but otherwise of indeterminate length with a decimal point before the fourth digit, where present (e.g.
		A Dewey Decimal System Tutorialby the Illinois State Library, funded by the Gates Foundation
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dewey_Decimal_System (871 words)

	Lycos Retriever: Search results for dewey decimal system
		This edition, anxiously awaited for many years, has arrived to cover the specific needs of Greek libraries at a time when the classification of knowledge is considered a necessary precondition to facilitate access to an increasing volume of information.
		Adler has space to note that Helen Keller learned to swim and ride a bicycle, but not to state that she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union or take on the medical establishment to change health care for infants.
		Each entry features full bibliographic information, a suggested age range, Dewey decimal classification information, a signed annotation with a brief discussion of plot and illustration, and a recommendation tag line.
	www.lycos.com /info/dewey-decimal-system.html (881 words)

	Dewey Decimal Classification System (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Melville Dewey, a librarian, devised this system in 1876, arranging all known knowledge and ideas into 10 broad categories.
		The Dewey Decimal System has been revised many times in the past 150 years, taking into account new areas of study and discovery.
		Dewey Decimal System: A Guide to Call Numbers provides a detailed look at all 1000 numbers, 000-999, and the subjects they represent.
	www.library.mhc.edu /research/dewey.htm (149 words)

	The Dewey Decimal Classification System
		The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about the fundamentals of the Dewey Decimal System to enable them to locate books in the library.
		This system is a general knowledge organization tool that is continuously revised to keep pace with knowledge.
		This system is a numerical scheme for the arrangement of subjects of nonfiction books, and it classifies books by dividing them into 10 main subject groups that are called categories.
	www.iit.edu /~smart/halsey/lesson1.htm (774 words)

	deweygame (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After teaching the Dewey system to elementary students for a few years, I realized that I was bored to tears with it.
		In colleges, they use a different system, but the idea is the same.
		Write the title of an obvious subject name, such as Art for Children, Soccer is for Me, Buddhism, etc. Sometimes, just to watch their eyes light up, throw in a book title with one of their teachers or the principal or one of the class member's name in it, like Mrs.
	www.storylady.com /deweygame.html (1660 words)

	deweygame (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After teaching the Dewey system to elementary students for a few years, I realized that I was bored to tears with it.
		In colleges, they use a different system, but the idea is the same.
		Write the title of an obvious subject name, such as Art for Children, Soccer is for Me, Buddhism, etc. Sometimes, just to watch their eyes light up, throw in a book title with one of their teachers or the principal or one of the class member's name in it, like Mrs.
	storylady.com /deweygame.html (1660 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Dewey Decimal System
		The Dewey decimal system is a method of classification used in libraries.
		The Dewey decimal system was thought up in 1874 by Melvil Dewey, an energetic man with a passion for confusion.
		The system then narrows down the fields by using more specific numbers, eventually getting into decimals.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A147232 (376 words)

	The Dewey Decimal System : (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dewey Decimal System was created by a librarian named Melvil Dewey.
		This classification system was developed in the United States where it is still widely used in many school and public libraries.
		Dewey developed this system to help libraries organize collections better and to make it easier for library users to find the books they want.
	www.frsd.k12.nj.us /copperlibrary/lmc/dds.htm (72 words)

	The Dewey Decimal System Unit Study, Homeschool Curriculum and Unit Studies Online - Homeschool Learning Network
		Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal Classification System
		Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey, the youngest of five children, was born on December 10, 1851, in a small town in northern New York.
		Amherst published his system in a pamphlet entitled "A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library" which is now in its 21st edition and has expanded to fill four large volumes.
	www.homeschoollearning.com /units/unit_09-10-01.shtml (1250 words)

	Lesson Three-The Dewey Decimal Classification System
		This system, the most commonly used in the United States, divides knowledge into ten different broad subject areas, called classes, numbered 000 - 999.
		Books written on the same subject having the same classification number are distinguished from one another by assigning a letter and number combination, called a Cutter number, which represents the author's last name and the title of the book.
		This system arranges all the books with the same call number alphabetically by the author's last name.
	www.dixie.edu /health/nursing/nursapps/dewey2.html (354 words)

	The Dewey Decimal Classification System (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was invented by a man named Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey when he was 21 years old, working as a student assistant in a college library.
		Dewey is credited with beginning the field of library science in the United States.
		Dewey's system of cataloguing books is used today in most local and school libraries.
	www.evgschool.org /dewey_decimal_classification_sys.htm (247 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dewey Decimal owner sues Manhattan's Library Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The nonprofit library cooperative that owns the Dewey Decimal system has filed suit against a library-themed luxury hotel in Manhattan for trademark infringement.
		The Library Hotel, which overlooks the New York Public Library, is divided according to the classification system, with each floor dedicated to one of Dewey's 10 categories.
		Melvil Dewey created his system — used in 95% of all public and K-12 school libraries — in 1873, but it is continually updated, with numbers assigned to more than 100,000 new works each year.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2003-09-21-dewey-decimal_x.htm (365 words)

	Melvil Dewey, Dewey Decimal System
		, born in 1851, devised a system that is used by most schools and libraries for organizing books.
		Called the Dewey Decimal System, it divides non-fiction books into ten broad categories.
		All books on mathematics are assigned numbers in the 510-519 range; mathematics is then broken down into types, such as algebra, arithmetic, and geometry.
	home.earthlink.net /~evanslw/html/dewey.htm (172 words)

	Dewey Decimal System
		Motley County ISD Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification System, devised by Melvil Dewey in the 1870's, to classify its nonfiction books and audiovisual materials.
		His system divides knowledge into ten main classes which are grouped into ten divisions and then further subdivided into ten sections.
		The main purpose of this classification system is to provide a basis for organizing books and materials into subject divisions so that they can be found quickly and easily.
	www.motleyco.org /DeweyDecimal.htm (414 words)

	Dewey Decimal System -- Cataloging Collections
		This is the major reference center in the 60-library Brooklyn Public Library System, which also includes the Business Library in Downtown Brooklyn and 58 libraries throughout the borough.
		THE DEWEY RAP uses the solid beat and easy-to-remember rhyme of rap music to teach the subjects found in the ten main Dewey classes.
		Dot, the decimal point in Dewey numbers, creatively illustrates representative subjects in each of the ten main classes of the Dewey Decimal System.
	www.thirteen.org /edonline/lessons/library/b.html (1180 words)

	Oberlin College Library - Dewey Decimal Classification System
		Please note: This version of the Dewey Decimal Classification system was developed in the late 1950's specifically for use in the Oberlin Conservatory Library, and therefore may differ significantly from versions in use at other libraries.
		The following table is not a complete list of the Dewey numbers used in the Library, but is instead merely representative of the numbers used.
		In this system, a score of music of a particular type is given a classification number similar to the number given to a book about that type of music.
	www.oberlin.edu /library/con/dewey.html (180 words)

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