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Locating Information: Dewey Decimal System
  1. Dewey Decimal System
  2. Using the Online Catalog
  3. Reference Tools
  4. Electronic Searching

 

In 1876 a librarian named Melville Dewey attempted to arrange all knowledge into ten very general categories which he then continued to divide into smaller and smaller topics. His plan was to find a way to put all books on the same subject together on the library shelves.

  1. The call number of a book is its address in the library.
  2. Dewey's logic was an attempt to organize all human knowledge into 10 big, very general categories.
  3. Locating a book is as easy as remembering the alphabet and knowing how to count.

     

 

 

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