Dewey Panic?!

1. Dewey Panic?! “There is No Fear That Cannot Be Classified” A Staff Training Class Presented By: Scarlett C. Fisher-Herreman & Jeff Imparato

2. Dewey Panic?! And now for a library catalog that’s completely different… Melvil Dewey, age 25

3. Dewey Panic?! Getting to know Mr. Dewey: • Born: December 10, 1851 in Adams Center, NY. • Died: December 26, 1931 at Lake Placid, NY • Married twice: 1st wife Annie, 2nd wife Emily • One son, Godfrey Dewey, with Annie • Best remembered for his catalog classification system, but also involved in the Spelling Reform movement and promoting the Metric system.

4. Dewey Panic?! Dewey’s lifelong passion for spelling reform motivated him to change the spelling of his own name. By his mid-twenties, he had officially changed his name from: Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey to Melvil Dui Oddly, the new spelling of his first name stuck but not the last name.

5. Dewey Panic?! By age 25, Dewey had already invented his classification system, worked as a professional librarian for 2 years, and served as a founding member of the American Library Association A clean-shaven and serious young Dewey. He would grow a beard later to disguise his rather prominent chin.

6. Dewey Panic?! Always one to speak his mind, Dewey often made enemies with others in the profession. At the first ALA conference, he publicly chastised Mr. William Poole, Director of the Chicago Public Library for leaving a meeting to smoke. William Poole Maybe he could have just asked him to shave instead?

7. Dewey Panic?! • Libraries in Dewey’s time were not systematically organized. Some were arranged by the order the books were acquired, others by alphabetical order or book size. • Dewey studied the methods of other librarians, including Cutter, Harris, Shurtleff, Jewett & Schwartz, all of whom had developed their own ideas about classification.

8. He thought it up during a boring sermon in church. Dewey Panic?! Dewey’s idea was to use decimals to classify all human knowledge, thus marrying the idea of arranging books by subject with the decimal system & creating a method that could easily be revised and/or expanded as needed.

9. Dewey Panic?! • Dewey arrived at Columbia College in New York City in 1883. The library was in a state of antiquated disarray. Dewey delighted in the organizational challenge before him. • In the first year alone he increased book circulation 500%. In five years he doubled the size of the collection and organized over 100,000 books into one unified catalog.

10. Dewey Panic?! • While at Columbia, Dewey started the first library science school in the world. • School officials were anything but keen on the idea of a library school and outraged when Dewey accepted women into his school. They forbid him any classrooms. • Dewey cleaned up a dusty attic room in a chapel across the street from the campus and held his classes there instead.

11. Dewey Panic?! • Dewey’s “School of Library Economy” boasted 17 women in the first class. • Dewey amassed a small group of faithful female supporters, who became known as “Dewey’s Girls.” Dewey (seated far right) with four of his “girls” and two uncomfortable looking gents

12. Dewey Panic?! Dewey moved on from Columbia and became the Secretary & Treasurer of the Board of Regents and Director of the State Library in Albany, New York. He held the position for 10 years (1889-1899) and was very active in numerous educational and professional endeavors.

13. Dewey Panic?! • Dewey’s obsession with time efficiency defined his working relationships in every job he ever held. • He devised elaborate color-coding schemes for all paperwork in his office & provided staff with specific forms so they would have to speak as little as possible with him. Dewey’s office in the State Capitol. Just imagine what he would have done with a laptop & email!

14. Dewey Panic?! • Dewey’s senior years were spent at Lake Placid, NY. He opened a large resort club, designed to be a relaxation utopia for the educated upper class. Dewey’s exclusionary practices (no Jews or minorities) at the club eventually got him into legal trouble. • He died of a massive stroke while eating breakfast in 1931.

15. Where is the Dewey Classification System Used? • In all parts of the world, there is some variety of the system Dewey created being used in Public and Academic Libraries.

16. Is Dewey the only Classification system used? • Because of the very large number range possible with Dewey, 027.478163 SHA is for Topeka Public Library : its first hundred years), the Library of Congress developed its own scheme. • It is called the Library of Congress Classification system (DUH!), the same book at the Mabee Library, Washburn University, is Z733.T67.

17. REMEMBERING ELSIE (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) CLASSIFICATION • A = Almanacs, Encyclopedias, and other Generalities. • B = as you think of the Philosophy and Psychology of cataloging, the “to B or not to B,” remember to pray about it as Religion is also in the “B” area (think Bible). • C = Civilization’s History, Archeology, Heraldry, Genealogy, and a person’s own history, i.e. Biography. • D = A natural Destination to the History of the Countries of the Old World, and modern Eastern Hemisphere Countries. • E = Everything about United StatesHistory. • F = Finally, all the rest of the History of the Western Hemisphere Countries. • G = Geography, Anthropology, and Games, i.e., Recreation and Sports. • H = Human interaction, i.e., Social Sciences, and those things which affects groups of people, Economics, Transportation, Commerce, Finance, the Family, Sociology, and others. • I = Not Used, it may be confused with L. • J = Jurisdiction, i.e., Political Science, and International Law. • K= Knowledge of the Law. • L = Learning, i.e., Education. • M = Music. • N = FiNe Arts. • O = Not Used, may be confused with Q. • P = Philology, i.e., the love of words, Language, and Literature. • Q = Questions to be answered by Science. • R = Rx is a well-known symbol for Medicine. • S = Soil, and other things related to Agriculture. • T = Technologyof all sorts are found here. • U = Uniforms worn by those in Military Science are found here, except in the • V = Naval Science field. • W, X, Y = Not Used • Z = Boring stuff, like Bibliographies and Library Science, make people want to saw some ZZZZZZZZZ..

18. But enough about LC, We’re here for Dewey. Ladies and Gentlemen, We bring you the World of Dewey!

20. How does a Dewey Number Work? • The Dewey System coordinates materials on the same subject and on related subjects to make items easier to find on the shelves by using a combination of letters and numbers. • The Dewey system is based on units of ten. The more numbers, the more specific the subject. • Let’s check out an example:

21. BUGS!!!!! Let’s say we want to find the call number for Butterflies. Bugs will be in the natural sciences, the 500s. This means the first number of the call number will be a 5.

22. Bugs, continued • Butterflies, and indeed all bugs, will be classified in the Zoological Sciences: 590. • The second number of the call number will be a 9. • Let’s see the divisions of the 590’s to find the next number…

23. Bugs, continued The 10 Divisions of the Zoological Sciences: • 591 Zoology • 592 Invertebrates • 593 Protozoa • 594 Mollusa • 595 Other Invertebrates (worms & insects) • 596 Vertebrates • 597 Fishes • 598 Reptiles and Birds • 599 Mammals

24. Bugs, continued • Insects, including butterflies, would be under 595. • So the first three numbers are: 595 • The 595’s are further divided by use of decimals to specify different types of invertebrates. We will now add a .7 to our number. 595.7

25. Bugs, continued • Butterflies are in an insect order known as Lepidoptera. We will now add an 8 to our number. 595.78 • We will add a 9 to complete our call number. 595.789 is the place will find butterflies.

26. In The Beginning (of the Dewey Collection) Brief Overview of the Dewey 000’s Generally speaking, the Dewey 000’s consists of Generalities, such as Encyclopedias (031), Almanacs – including the Guinness Book of Records (032), and other collections of bunches of topics that don’t fit into one category, such a trivia books (031.02). It also includes subjects that deal with knowledge and information such as: Unexplained phenomenon, such as UFO’s and Bigfoot (001.9); Computer programs, a mystery to most people (004-006); Bibliography (010-019), especially the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media (016.071);Library Science (020-029); Publishers and Publishing (050-059), including Writer’s Market (051), General Organization and Museology, (060-069) including Encyclopedia of Association (061.3) and Museum Directories (069) ; Journalism (070-079), General Collections (080-089), including Respectfully Quoted (081); and Rare Books and Manuscripts (090-099).

27. I Think, Therefore I Am, I Think Brief overview of the Dewey 100’s The main subjects in the Dewey 100’s are Philosophy (100-109), Paranormal Phenomena (133s), Psychology (150’s), Conduct of Life issues 160s-170s, 180s World Philosophies. 103 All dictionaries and encyclopedias of Philosophy. (HINT: any number with a 03 at the end is either a dictionary or encyclopedia) 158 self-help books on Success. 160 Logic 170 Ethics 180 World philosophies, especially ancient cultures. 190 Modern western and other non-eastern philosophy

28. A Wing and a Prayer Brief overview of the Dewey 200s Here you’ll find mankind’s search for a higher power. 200.3 or 203 All general dictionaries and encyclopedias on religions. 220-229 All matters related to the Bible, including translations, commentaries, and interpretations, as well as discussions of the separate books in the Bible. 230 Christianity 240 Prayers and Meditations 250-280 Christian Church 250 Local Christian church and Christian religious orders 260 Christian social and ecclesiastical theology 270 Historical, geographic, persons treatment of Chrisitianity 280 Denominations and sects of Christian Church 290 Other religions 292 Classical Greek and Roman 296 Judaism 297 Islam

29. Social Sciences, or Why can’t we just get along? Brief overview of the Dewey 300s The study of people, and how they interact with others. 300.3 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of sociology. 310 Statistics 320 Political Science 330 Economics 332 Personal Finance 340 Law 348 Laws, regulations, cases 348.781 Kansas Statutes Annotated 350 Public administration and military science 360 Social problems and services 370 Education 380 Commerce, communication, transportation 389.1 Measurement – Take me to your liter. 390 Customs, etiquette, folklore

30. Say What?Brief overview of the Dewey 400s. Learning the rules, and pronunciation of your own language, and languages foreign to you. 403 Polyglot dictionaries, and general encyclopedias of language. 410 Linguistics, the study of human speech 419 Sign languages 420 English and Old English 423 Dictionaries of standard English 425 Grammar of standard English 428 Standard English usage 428.1 English as a Second Language 430 German 440 French 450 Italian 460 Spanish and Portuguese 470 Latin 480 Classical Greek 490 Other languages 491.7 Russian 495.1 Chinese 495.6 Japanese

31. Hey Einstein! Natural sciences and mathematics Brief overview of the Dewey 500s Natural sciences deal with matter and energy, or with objects and processes observable in nature. 503 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of general science. 509 History of science. 510-519 Mathematics 520 Astronomy and allied sciences 530 Physics 540 Chemistry 550 Earth sciences 560 Paleontology Paleozoology 570 Life sciences Biology 574.999 Extraterrestrial Life 580 Plants 590 Animals 599.757 Lions 599.756 Tigers 599.78 Bears 599.99 Oh My!

32. Apply Yourself! Technology (Applied Sciences) Brief overview of the Dewey 600s Here’s where you apply what you learned in school to real life situations. 603 Dictionaries and encyclopedias on technology. 609 History of technology. 610-618 Medicine and Health 620 Engineering 625 Railroads and roads 629.28 Automobiles 630 Agriculture and related technologies 635.9 Gardening 640 Home and family management 641.5 Cooking 641.5942 Cookery – England 641.5943 Cookery – Germany 643.7 Home improvement 649.1 Child rearing 650 Management and auxillary services 650.14 Resumès 651 Office management 658.022 Small Business 660 Chemical Engineering 670 Manufacturing of raw material 680 Manufacturing of products for specific uses 690 Buildings

33. The Finer Things in Life – Fine and decorative arts Brief overview of the Dewey 700s Contains material on critical appraisal, techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials of the fine, decorative, literary, performing and decorative arts. 703 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of art 709 History of Art 712 Landscape Architecture 728 Residential and related buildings (house plans) 738 Ceramic arts 741 Drawing and drawings 745 Decorative arts 745.1 General Collectibles 745.5 Handicrafts 745.592 Toys, models, miniatures 745.5922 Doll Collectibles 745.5923 Dollhouses and furniture 746 Textile arts 746.4 Needlework 746.43 Knitting 746.44 Embroidery 747 Interior Decoration 748 Glass 749 Furniture

34. The Finer Things in Life – Fine and decorative arts (cont’d) 750 Painting and paintings 750.3 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of painting 751 Techniques 759 History, geographic treatment 759.1 Paintings from North America 759.2 Paintings from the British Isles, England 759.3 Paintings from Germany 759.4 Paintings from France 759.5 Paintings from Italy 759.6 Paintings from Spain 759.7 Paintings from Russia 759.951 Paintings from China 760 Graphic arts 770 Photography 780 Music 782 Vocal music 784 Instrumental music 790 Recreational and performing arts 791.43 Motion Pictures 791.45 Television 796 Athletic and outdoor sports and games 796.332 Football 796.357 Baseball

35. The Write Stuff –Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric Drama, Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Speeches, Letters, Miscellaneous writings, Humor and Satire. 803 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of Literature. 809 Historical treatment of Literature 810-818 American treatment of all aspects of Literature. 811 American Poetry 812 American Drama 813 American Fiction 814 American Essays 815 American Speeches 816 American Letters 817 American Humor and Satire in English 818 American miscellaneous writings in English 820-829 English treatment of all aspects of Literature. 830-839 German treatment of all aspects of Literature. 840-849 French treatment of all aspects of Literature. 850-858 Italian treatment of all aspects of Literature. 860-868 Spanish treatment of all aspects of Literature. 870-879 Latin treatment of all aspects of Literature. 880-889 Hellenic (Greek) treatment of all aspects of Literature. 890-899 Other specific languages and language families

36. Don’t Know Much about History Brief overview of the Dewey 900s 903 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of history 904 Collected accounts of events (Natural disasters, etc.) 909 World history 909.1-8 Specific historical periods 909.1 6th-12th centuries 500-1199 909.2 13th century 1200-1299 909.3 14th century 1300-1399 909.4 15th century 1400-1499 909.5 16th century 1500-1599 909.6 17th century 1600-1699 909.7 18th century 1700-1799 909.81 19th century 1800-1899 909.82 20th century 1900-1999 909.821 1900-1919 909.822 1920-1929 909.823 1930-1939 909.824 1940-1949 909.825 1950-1959 909.826 1960-1969 909.827 1970-1979 909.828 1980-1989 909.829 1990-1999 909.83 21st century 2000-2099

37. Are we there yet? Geography and travel Brief overview of the Dewey 910-919s 910.3 Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances, gazetteers of Geography 910.4 Accounts of travel 910.45 Titanic 911 Historical atlases 912 Graphic representations of surface of earth of extraterrestrial worlds (World atlases, Road atlases, Atlases of space) 913 Geography and travel in ancient world 913.32 Traveling through ancient Egyptian ruins 913.37 Traveling through ancient Roman ruins 913.38 Traveling through ancient Grecian ruins 914 Traveling in Europe 914.2 Traveling in England 914.3 Traveling in Germany 914.4 Traveling in France 914.5 Traveling in Italy 914.6 Traveling in Spain 914.7 Traveling in Russia 914.8 Traveling in Scandinavia 914.9 Traveling in Iceland, Norway 915 Traveling in Asia 915.1 Traveling in China 915.2 Traveling in Japan 916 Traveling in Africa 917 Traveling in North America 918 Traveling in South America 919 Traveling in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica)

38. Who’s Who – Biography, genealogy, insignia 920.003 Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances of biography. i.e. Dictionary of World Biography 920.1-928 Biography of specific classes of persons. 920.2 Librarians and book collectors 921 Philosophers and psychologists 922 Religious leaders, thinkers, workers 923 Persons in social sciences 923.1 Heads of state 923.142 “Lives of the Kings and Queens of England” 923.173 “Facts about the Presidents” 923.2 Persons in political science and politics 923.273 “Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress” 924 Philologists and lexicographers 925 Scientists 926 Persons in technology 927 Persons in arts and recreation 927.82 Vocal musicians 927.96357 Baseball players 928 Persons in literature, history, biography, genealogy

39. Who’s Who – Biography, genealogy, insignia (cont’d) 929 Genealogy, names, insignia 929.1 Genealogy 929.2 Family histories 929.3 Genealogical sources 929.3781 Genealogical records in Kansas 929.4 Personal names (Baby names) 929.5 Cemetery records 929.5781 Cemetery records of Kansas 929.7 Royal houses, peerage, gentry, orders of knighthood 929.8 Awards, orders, decorations, autographs 929.9 Forms of insignia and identification

40. Long, long, time ago, in a land far, far, away – History of the ancient world Brief overview of the Dewey 930-939s 930 History of the ancient world to ca. 499 AD 931 China to 420 AD 932 Egypt to 640 AD 933 Palestine to 70 AD 934 India to 647 AD 935 Mesopotamia and Iranian Plateau to 637 AD 936 Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to ca. 499 AD 937 Italian Peninsula and adjacent territories to 476 AD 938 Greece to 323 AD 939 Other parts of ancient world to ca. 640 AD

41. History of the modern world, and of extraterrestrial worlds 940s History of Europe 941 British Isles 941.1-4 Scotland 941.5 Ireland 941.6 Ulster Northern Ireland 941.7 Republic of Ireland 941.8 Leinster 941.9 Munster 942 England & Wales 943 Central Europe, Germany 943.6 Austria and Liechtenstein 943.7 Czech Republic and Slovakia 943.8 Poland 943.9 Hungary 944 France & Monaco 944.9 Provence-Côte d’Azur, Monaco, Corsica

42. 940s History of Europe 945 Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands 945.4 Emilia-Romagna region and San Marino 945.6 Central Italy and Vatican City 945.8 Sicily and adjacent islands 946 Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands Spain 946.7 Eastern Spain and Andorra 946.8 Andalusia autonomous community and Gibraltar 946.9 Portugal 947 Eastern Europe, Russia 947.5 Caucasus 947.6 Moldova 947.7 Ukraine 947.8 Belarus 947.9 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

43. 940s History of Europe 948 Northern Europe, Scandinavia 948.1-4 Norway 948.5-8 Sweden 948.9 Denmark and Finland 949 Other parts of Europe 949.1 Northwestern Islands Iceland 949.2 Netherlands 949.3 Southern Low Countries Belgium 949.4 Switzerland 949.5 Greece 949.6 Balkan Peninsula 949.7 Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Macedonia 949.8 Romania 949.9 Bulgaria

45. 950 History of Asia Orient Far East 951 China and adjacent areas 951.25 Hong Kong 951.7 Mongolia 951.9 Korea 951.93 North Korea 951.95 South Korea 952 Japan 953 Arabian Peninsula and adjacent areas 953.1 Sinai Peninsula 953.3 Yemen 953.5 Oman and United Arab Emirates 953.6 Persian Gulf States 953.63 Qatar 953.65 Bahrain 953.67 Kuwait

46. 950 History of Asia Orient Far East 954 South Asia India 954.91 Pakistan 954.92 Bangladesh 954.63 Sri Lanka 955 Iran 956 Middle East (Near East) 956.1 Turkey 956.7 Iraq 956.9 Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan 957 Siberia (Asiatic Russia)

47. 950 History of Asia Orient Far East 958 Central Asia 958.1 Afghanistan 958.4 Turkestan 958.5 Turkmenistan 958.6 Tajikistan 958.7 Uzbekistan 959 Southeast Asia 959.1 Myanmar (Formerly Burma) 959.3 Thailand 959.4 Laos 959.5 Commonwealth of Nations territories Malaysia 959.6 Cambodia 959.7 Vietnam 959.8 Indonesia and East Timor 959.9 Philippines

49. 960 History of Africa 961.1 Tunisia 961.2 Libya 962 Egypt 962.4-9 Sudan 963 Ethiopia 963.5 Eritrea 964 Northwest African coast and offshore islands Morocco 964.8 Western Sahara 964.9 Canary Islands 965 Algeria 965.5 Northeastern provinces 965.7 Sahara provinces

50. 966 West Africa and offshore islands 966.1 Mauritania 966.2 Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger 966.3 Senegal 966.4 Sierra Leone 966.5 Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde 966.62 Liberia 966.68 Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 966.7 Ghana 966.81 Togo 966.83 Benin 966.9 Nigeria