Classification & Arrangement of Books

The Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme

Books are arranged on the shelves according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), which groups the fields of knowledge into 10 main classes, namely:

000 – 099       General works

100 – 199       Philosophy and related fields

200 – 299       Religion

300 – 399       Social sciences

400 – 499       Languages

500 – 599       Pure Sciences

600 – 699       Applied sciences (Technology)

700 – 799       Fine Arts

800 – 899       Literature

900 – 999       History, geography, biography

Arrangement of Books

Non-fiction books  are arranged on the shelves from left to right, top to bottom, according to the following:

Class numerically according to DDC number

Same class number

Alphabetically by title, if with the same class and author number

Fiction books  (Novels particularly in pocket books) have no class numbers. They are alphabetically arranged on the shelves by author numbers.

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