Springshare LibGuides - Dewey Decimal System

Intro

This section contains the resources explaining the practical use of DDC.

10 Basic Categories

000 Reference works - encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines
100 Philosophy and pyschology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences - law, education, customs, everyday life
400 Languages
500 Basic sciences - mathematics, chemistry
600 Applied Sciences - technology, medicine, engineering
700 the arts - architecture, painting, music
800 Literature - poetry, novels, plays
900 Geography, biography, and history

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Visit these websites

The websites below will give you a solid introduction to DDC and its practical use in the Libraries.

List of DDC Classifications

A long list of summaries of categories and classifications for DDC.
Resources for learning DDC

Part of the OCLC DDC website. Good resources for both teachers and students.
The DDC book at Amazon.com

Order a book about DDC from Amazon.com
The Dewey Decimal Game

Learn DDC by playing an online game.
What is so great about DDC?

An interesting look at DDC from Straight Dope!
Communication & Mass Media Complete - EBSCOhost

Instruction Guide
Scholarly database with indexing and some full-text coverage for research in the communications and mass media fields. Provides information from two indexes: CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index