By Christina H. Fowler
Branch Manager Dillon County Library
Have you ever walked into your local library and felt completely lost?
You think I can’t find anything I’m looking for. If you have you are not alone many people do not understand the way the library is set up. The Dillon County Library system books are classified using the Dewey Decimal System. What is the Dewey Decimal System you ask? The Dewey Decimal System is a way of classifying library books that divides them into ten main classes, divided in turn into categories with three-digit numbers and subcategories with numbers after a decimal point. You’re probably thinking well what does that mean to me when I’m looking for books? I will break it down so that you will understand it better.
000-Basic Information (Encyclopedias, Computer Books, and Books about the Library)
100-Philosphy and Psychology
200-Religion (Study Bible, and Books on different Religion)
300-Social Sciences (Law & Government, Jobs & Money, Families & Holidays, and Folk & Fairy Tales)
400-Languages (Books on Learning a Foreign Language)
500-Natural Sciences (Rocks, Trees, Weather, Oceans, Rivers, Wild Animals, Dinosaurs, Plants, Space, Moon, Stars, Sun, Math, Time, Chemistry)
600-Applied Science (Cars, Boats, Planes, Cookbooks, Computers, Pets, Farm Animals, Medicine, and the Human Body)
700-Art & Recreation (Dance, Music, Theater, Drawing Jokes, Riddles, and Sports)
800-Literature (Shakespeare, Poems, and Plays)
900-History & Geography (Countries, States, Historical Events, Wars, and Travel Books)
All Fiction YA, Juvenile, Easy Readers, Large Print are all list by the first three letters of the authors last name. Example: John Grisham is listed under GRI.
