Your Guide to Dewey Decimal - Cairns Regional Council

1 Your Guide toNumbers@ Your LibraryDewey DecimalSmithfield Library1 The aim of this Guide is to assist you in your search for knowedge and information at Cairns Libraries. The Guide may be used as you browse our library shelves for your chosen topic or to assist you once you have searched the library catalogue and are ready to look for items on the items in Cairns Libraries are organised using the Dewey Classification Decimal (DDC) System, which categorises books according to the subject matter, so that similar topics are shelved close together. The DDC, which was introduced in 1876, divides books into ten main subject classes, each represented by Dewey call numbers:000 General works, Encyclopaedias, Bibliographies, Library Science, Computer Science, Journalism100 Philosophy, Logic200 Religion, Bible, Theology, World Religions300 Social Sciences, Politics, Economics, Law, Education, Customs400 Language, Linguistics, English, Foreign Languages500 Pure Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Zoology, Astronomy, Geology600 Technology, Medical Sciences, Building, Engineering, Home Economics, Business, Agriculture, Aviation700 Arts, Landscaping, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Music, Photography, Recreation800 Literature, Prose, Poetry, Drama900 History, Travel,Geography, Biography.

2 Ancient and Modern History Broad topic areas have a short call number which generally comprises of 3 digits. There are always 3 numbers before the Decimal point. The numbers before the Decimal point tell you the main subject area or class and indicate where to start looking for the item on the shelf. Each main class is further divided into ten divisions and each division into ten sections. The numbers after the Decimal point give you more details about the subject of the item and its location on the shelf. Longer numbers indicate a more specific example - the number for Natural Sciences is 500. This is a main subject are found on the shelves at 591. Animals living in Australia are , and more specifically Animals in Far North Queensland are at are found on the shelves at 598, however Birds of Prey are at and Birds of Prey living in Australia are at As well as a Dewey Number each item is assigned three letters to be placed after the Dewey Number.

3 These letters indicate either the first three letters of the author s surname or the title of the items have been assigned a call number they are then placed in order on the shelves according to that number. This Guide contains a listing of some of the more commonly requested topics and their Dewey Decimal of interest in this Guide will be highlighted by the following:LOCAL/ Regional TOPICS HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUETEN MAIN SUBJECT AREAS CAPITALISED, AND HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE. 23 AAborigines - Art - History - Social Conditions , Australian QLD Cairns Region History Accounting 657 Addiction Education 374 Advertising 659 Aircraft 630 AIDS (disease)

4 Disease Medicines , North 917 America, South 918 Anatomy History 930 Animal Husbandry 636 Animal Behavior Animals 590 Animals - Australia Endangered Animals Queensland.

5 Northern 998 Antiques Tests Architecture 720 Architecture, Domestic 728 Art 709 Art, Australia 700 Asia 915 Asia - History 950 Asthma Astrology 520 Atlases 912 Australia - Description & Travel - Discovery & Exploration & Biography 920 Aquariums 639 Architecture 720

6 Australia - Economic Conditions - History 994 Australia - Politics & Government - Social Life & Customs Literature Poetry names (Personal) 220 Biodiversity & Autobiography 920 Biology 570 Bisexuality 598 Birth Defects 002 Botany

7 581 Brain Cancer (Medicine) - History 941 Buddhism 690 Bushwalking - Cairns Region - Australia Technology 650 Business Management 6585 CCabinetmaking Cairns - Description &Travel - Economic Conditions - History - Planning

8 Region - Statistics - Road Maps Decorating York Peninsula - Travel York Peninsula - History Games Diseases 331 Carpentry 694 Cars Church 282 Cats (Biology) 738 Chemistry 540 Chess Abuse Care Development Psychology Rearing Health

9 - History 951 Computers 001 Chinese - Language 230 Civil Rights 909 Climate (Weather) 384 Commerce 380 Computers 001 Conservation 391 Craft 745 Creative Writing 808 Cricket

10 364 Culture 306 Cults 209 Customs 392 Cyclones - Queensland, North Region & Dying (Psychology) Debt management (Personal) Democracy , Mental and Decoration 729 Dictionaries 413 Diabetes & Nutrition 560 Digital