Doing Dewey: Getting Started

Doin’ Dewey! How would YOU organize a library? By Mr. Breitsprecher

How Would You..
Put books on shelves?
Make titles easy to find?
Make topics easy to find?
Keep track of each book?

Organizing a Library
List of books, called “catalog”
Today’s catalogs are on computers
Group books on shelves by subject
Called “classification”

Melvil Dewey
Born in 1851
Loved organizing & mathematics
Used both to set up his library

Before Dewey
Every library was different
Books organized to get them out quickly in case of fire
Common hazard years ago
Books in buckets
Expensive books in easy to reach places
Hard to find books this way

Dewey Changed This
Knew we find books by topics of interest
Used numbers as a “code”
Classify books by topic
Numbers keep books on same topic together
Lets us “browse” shelves to find books

Advantages of Dewey
Puts books about same subject next to each other on shelves
Let’s us “browse” by subject
Used by libraries around world

Dewey Decimal
General groups by 100s
Decimals create special number for each topic
Simple to use
Easy to find books

Dewey Made it Easy
General numbers, by 100s, simple
Think of how information is used
That’s what Melvil Dewey did
Rational system

100s – Who Am I?
Take care of #1
Our self
Dewey starts here
Interested in ourselves first
How we think & act
Psychology
Philosophy

200s – Who Made Me
After ourselves, think “how did I get here?”
Greater than self
Who made me?
Religion
Myths

300s –Who Is My Neighbor?
Next interest, people around us
Need groups of people to share interests
How we live
Things we do
Folklore

400s Talk to Neighbors
In order to share with others, need to communicate
Languages
How we write
Grammar

500s – What to Talk About?
Once we have neighbors and communication, what will we share?
General sciences
Math

600’s Using Science, Math
Must find ways to apply sciences
How we use:
Science
Medicine
Technology

700s – Time for FUN!
After all this work, time for break
Relax, have fun
Arts
Sports
Recreation

800’s – Get Serious Again!
Break is over!
Literature
Famous authors
Famous books
What makes us who we are

900’s – How Did It Happen?
Who, what where, when, how?
Help us understand the other topics, subjects
Geography
History

000-099 – Room to Grow
Dewey knew he could not think of everything
Place for topics not yet invented or imagined
Aliens
Computer software
Biographies

Remembering Is Easy
100s - Think of self
200s – How did I get here?
300s – Who is my neighbor?
400s – How do I communicate with my neighbor?
500s – What will I talk about?
600s – What will I do with science?

Think Like Dewey
700s – After all this serious thinking, what should we do for FUN!
800s – Serious again, what authors and books are important?
900s – Who, what where when, why, how?
00-99s – Room to grow, everything
else

Thanks to Melvil Dewey
We can find information in almost any library
Books are organized by topic
We can “browse” shelves to find books

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Doing Dewey: Getting Started

by William Breitsprecher on Nov 11, 2007

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