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In municipal libraries they are classified through the use of the Dewey decimal system.

The US library system uses for it classification of books, the Dewey decimal system, which gives a number from 000 to 999 for every subject that is written about. Then they further divide up each subject by adding three more digits, for example 000.000 would be the first subject matter and 999.999 would be the last subject matter.
The classes are as follows:

  • 000 - Computer science, information and general works
  • 100 - Philosophy and psychology
  • 200 - Religion
  • 400 - Language
  • 500 - Science (including mathematics)
  • 600 - Technology and applied Science
  • 700 - Arts and recreation
  • 800 - Literature
  • 900 - History and geography

The Library of Congress has a different system for their classification of books based on the alphabet system instead of numbers, this allows for a greater number of classes of books.

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