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1 Dewey Decimal Classification System The Purdue University Libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification System to classify and arrange their collections. In this System , all knowledge is represented by 10 broad subject classes: 000 Generalities 100 Philosophy and related disciplines 200 Religion 300 The social sciences 400 Language 500 Pure sciences 600 Technology (applied sciences). 700 The arts 800 Literature 900 General geography and history The Dewey Decimal System is a hierarchical System , which means, within each broad class, it develops progressively from the general to the specific. For example: 600 Technology (applied sciences). 640 Domestic arts and sciences 646 Sewing, clothing, personal grooming Personal grooming Personal appearance Care of hair Professional hairdressing for women and girls Excerpts from Marty Bloomberg and Hans Weber, An Introduction To Classification and Number Building In Dewey (Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc.)
2 , 1976). Each item in the Libraries has a unique call number and is filed under that number on the shelves. To ensure that you find the exact item you want, be sure to copy the complete call number. 10/90. How Call Numbers Work Using Decimal notation, books are All books of the same number group If all the information in the call shelved numerically (left to right) by are then arranged according to the number is identical, the books are the h first fi line li ini the h call ll number. b I. In second d line li off the h call ll number, b first fi h then arranged d according di to other words, they are arranged alphabetically, then number by publication dates, chronologically number by number. For example number (D185n comes before D19a) from oldest to newest. Multi- comes before because it and then alphabetically again by the volume sets are filed numerically is a smaller number. last letter(s).
3 By volume number.
