Tag: Teach Me How To Dewey
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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: We’re getting meta up in here. I suppose it’s fitting that the section on libraries should be towards the beginning. Imagine how much this section has changed from Melvil Dewey’s time until now. I wonder how blown his mind would be by the Internet and online…
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DDC 010-019: Books, man…
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Ohhhhh yeaaahhhh… Pure, unadulterated book crack. This is where things start to get good. Book lovers don’t have to go far to get their fix in Dewey. Bibliographies of all stripes serenade perusers of the stacks like the Sirens in The Odyssey, each its own rabbit…
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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: Each class has its own 10 subdivisions, which have their own subsections,…
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Dewey is dead; long live Dewey
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is kinda weird. For today’s app-ified patrons, it’s not very intuitive and seems tattered, like one of the old books it classifies. But despite what the sayers of nay say, it’s not time to dump Dewey. Instead, we should try to get to know it a little better. Librarians encounter…