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FIGURE 6.1. “First Summary”

The Ten Main Classes

000 Gen er al ities
100 Phi los o phy & psychology
200 Re li gion
300 So cial sci ences
400 Lan guage
500 Nat u ral sci ences & math e mat ics
600 Tech nol ogy (Ap plied sci ences)
700 The arts. Fine and dec orative arts
t
800 Lit er a ure & rhet o ric
900 Ge og ra phy & his tory

class 600 through class 900 in volume three. To fa cilitate the job of as -
sign ing Dewey num bers, li brary tech ni cians should fa mil iar ize them-
selves with the sched ules and the pat tern of each cat egory.
By check ing the main sched ules, one will find that more de tails
may be added following a dec imal point. For ex ample, for the classi-
fi ca tion num ber 378.25:
300 denotes social science
370 denotes education
378 denotes higher education
378.2 denotes academic degrees
378.25 denotes honorary degrees
Also, num bers from the ta bles in vol ume one of DDC 21 may be
added. For ex am ple, for the clas si fi ca tion num ber 510.711:
500 denotes natural sciences and mathematics
510 denotes mathematics
510.7 denotes education, research, related topics
(from Table 1)
510.71 denotes schools and courses (from Table 1)
510.711 denotes higher education (from Table 1)