Understanding the Logic: Step 1


Dewey Decimal System: Understanding the Logic Step 1

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In 1876 Melvil Dewey attempted to organized all human knowledge into 10 big, very general categories. His plan was to find a way to put all the books that covered the same topic together on the library shelves.

Step 1:

He assigned each of these categories a number from 000 to 900. Books were assigned a number for a category based on their content.
 

Number Category Examples of the content
 000
 General Works Encyclopedias. computers, mysterious events
 100 Philosophy Psychology, parapsychology, witchcraft, dreams
 200 Religion World religions, Christianity, Judaism, mythology
 300 Social Sciences Immigration, social problems, government, folk tales 
 400 Language
Foreign languages, origin of language, codes
 500 Pure Sciences Mathematics, biology, chemistry, weather
 600 Technology Medicine, cooking, inventions, flight
 700 Fine Arts Painting, music, dance, games, sports
 800 Literature poetry, drama, humor, Shakespeare
900 History and Geography atlases, world history, countries of the world

       
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