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They uses the dewey decimal system, books have two number and tells if it is a fiction or nonfiction book. Before the invention of the computer card catalogs of books were in the library and they listed books in nonfiction sections/fiction sections in alphabetical order, so the reader would look up a book in the catalogs, write down the numbers on the card, and seek the section for the book.

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