Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Congressional Call Numbers

I've been spending some time in the library finding books for my PA...so today I finally decided that it would make sense to understand the Library of Congress' Call System. I have now explored much of it...they're pretty specific.
For example:
B Philosophy (General)
69-99..........General works
108-5802.......By period (including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy)
108-708.......Ancient
720-765.......Medieval
770-785.......Renaissance
790-5802......Modern
808-849........Special topics and schools of philosophy
850-5739......By region or country
5800-5802....By religion

Too many numbers and letters on each...but when you're dealing with that many books, I suppose you must. Good bye, Dewey Decimal System.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great work.