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How Are Books Classified in The Library?

The document discusses how the Dewey Decimal Classification system organizes books in libraries. It is a 10 class system with each class divided into 10 divisions and sections. The classes attempt to organize all knowledge. Books are placed on shelves in numerical order based on their Dewey Decimal number. Fiction books also have a Dewey number, though some libraries create a separate fiction section. The system allows for multiple class numbers to be assigned to items.

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How Are Books Classified in The Library?

The document discusses how the Dewey Decimal Classification system organizes books in libraries. It is a 10 class system with each class divided into 10 divisions and sections. The classes attempt to organize all knowledge. Books are placed on shelves in numerical order based on their Dewey Decimal number. Fiction books also have a Dewey number, though some libraries create a separate fiction section. The system allows for multiple class numbers to be assigned to items.

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How are books classified in the library?

The Dewey Decimal Classification is a system of library classification made up of ten


classes, each divided into ten divisions, each having ten sections (although the are only
99 divisions and 908 sections in total, as some are no longer in use or have not assigned).

The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes. DDC’s advantage in
using decimals for its categories allows it to be both purely numerical and infinitely
hierarchical. It also uses some aspects of a faceted classification scheme, combining
elements from different parts of the structure to construct a number representing the
subject content (often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and
geographical and temporal elements) and form of an item rather than drawing upon a list
containing each class and its meaning.

Except for general works and fiction, works are classified principally by subject, with
extensions for subject relationship, place, time or type of material, producing
classification, numbers of at least there digits but otherwise of indeterminate length with
a decimal point before the fourth digit, where present (for example, 330 for economics +
.9 for geographic treatment + .04 for Europe = 330.94 European economy; 973 for United
States + .05 form division for periodicals = 973.05 periodicals concerning the United
States generally).

Books are placed on the shelf in increasing numerical order of the decimal number, for
example. 050, 220, 330, 330.973, 331. When two books have the same classification
number the second line of the call number (usually the first letter of letters of the author’s
last name, the little if there is no identifiable author) is replaced in alphabetical order.

The DDC has a number for all books, including fiction: American fiction is classified in
813. Most libraries create a separate fiction section to allow shelving in a more
generalized fashion than Dewey provides for, or to avoid the space that would be taken
up in the 800s, or simply to allow readers to find preferred authors by alphabetical order
of surname.

Some part of the classification offer options to accommodate different kinds of libraries.
An important feature of the scheme is the ability to assign multiple class numbers to a
bibliographical item and only use one of them from shelving. The structure of the
schedules is such that subjects close to each other in a dictionary catalog are dispersed
in the Dewey schedules (for example, architecture in Chicago quite separate from
geography of Chicago).

Classes of Dewey Decimal (200-300)

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200 - Religion

200 Religion
210 Natural Theology
220 Bible
230 Christian Theology
240 Christian Moral and Devotional Theology
250 Christian Orders and Local Church
260 Christian Social theology
270 Christian Church History
280 Christian Denominations and Sects
290 Other and Comparative Religions

300 - Social Science

300 Social Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology


310 General Statistics
320 Political Science
330 Economics
340 Law
350 Public Administration
360 Social Services; Association
370 Education
380 Commerce, Communications, Transport
390 Customs, Etiquette, Folklore

The System

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Class K - Law

Subclass K - Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence


Subclass KB - Religious law in general, comparative religious law, Jurisprudence
Subclass KBM - Jewish law
Subclass KBP - Islamic law
Subclass KBR - History of canon law
Subclass KBU - Law of the Roman Catholic Church, The Holy See
Subclasses KD; KDK - United Kingdom and Ireland
Subclass KDZ - America, North America
Subclass KE - Canada
Subclass KF - United States
Subclass KG - Latin America - Mexico and Central America - West Indies,
Caribbean area
Subclass KH - South America
Subclasses KJ; KKZ - Europe
Subclasses KL; KWX - Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica
Subclass KZ - Law of nations

Class L - Education

Subclass L - Education (General)


Subclass LA - History of Education
Subclass LB - Theory and practice of education
Subclass LC - Special aspects of education
Subclass LD - Individual institutions - United States
Subclass LE - Individual institutions - America ( except United States)
Subclass LF - Individual institutions - Europe
Subclass LG - Individual Institutions - Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean Island,
Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands
Subclass LH - College and school magazines and papers
Subclass LJ -Student fraternities nad societies, United States
Subclass LT - Textbooks

Class M - Music

Subclass M - Music
Subclass ML - Literature on music
Subclass MT - Instruction and study

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