Tag: books
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DDC 060-069: Museum’s Rules
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 060 General organizations & museology 061 Organizations in North America 062 Organizations in British Isles; in England 063 Organizations in central Europe; in Germany 064 Organizations in France & Monaco 065 Organizations in Italy & adjacent islands 066 Organizations in Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands 067…
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DDC 050-059: Killer serials
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 050 General serials & their Indexes 051 Serials in American English 052 Serials in English 053 Serials in other Germanic languages 054 Serials in French, Occitan & Catalan 055 Serials in Italian, Romanian & related languages 056 Serials in Spanish & Portuguese 057 Serials in Slavic…
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DDC 040-049: The Abyss
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Darkness. Emptiness. Eternally nothing. This is the first and only unassigned ten-spot in all of Dewey. It used to be the home of Biographies, but most libraries separate biographies into their own section, leaving this vacant lot to the weeds. Of course, on the shelves the…
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DDC 030-039: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the 030s
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 030 General encyclopedia works 031 Encyclopedias in American English 032 Encyclopedias in English 033 Encyclopedias in German 034 Encyclopedias in French, Occitan & Catalan 035 Encyclopedias in Italian, Romanian & related languages 036 Encyclopedias in Spanish & Portuguese 037 Encyclopedias in Slavic languages 038 Encyclopedias in…
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DDC 020-029: Meta-Dewey
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 020 Library & information sciences 021 Library relationships 022 Administration of physical plant 023 Personnel management 024 No longer used—formerly Regulations for readers 025 Library operations 026 Libraries for specific subjects 027 General libraries 028 Reading & use of other information media 029 No longer used—formerly…
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DDC 010-019: Books, man…
More Teach Me How To Dewey The Rundown: 010 Bibliography 011 Bibliographies 012 Bibliographies of individuals 013 [Unassigned] 014 Bibliographies of anonymous & pseudonymous works 015 Bibliographies of works from specific places 016 Bibliographies of works on specific subjects 017 General subject catalogs 018 Catalogs arranged by author, date, etc. 019 Dictionary catalogs Ohhhhh yeaaahhhh……
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DDC 001-009: You’re wrong about aliens and books
A Teach Me How To Dewey production We’re really doing it, buddies! Teach Me How To Dewey (aka the Dewey Domination System, aka Operation Climb Mountain Dewey) is in effect, library card at the ready to check out some sweet books, and maybe a movie or two if we’re feeling lucky. Generally, each post that…
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This Is How We Dewey: A Primer
A Teach Me How To Dewey production . Ready for the Snapchat summary of Dewey? Here it goes: The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) organizes library material in a numerical hierarchy by field of study. Each one has its own 100-level placement, called a class: 000 – General works, Computer science and Information 100 – Philosophy…