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The Dewey Decimal System is a system of classification in a library. It helps in locating a title among thousands of books. It is a way of classifying books and placing them on shelves so that they can easily be found. For more see the link below.
A method of organizing library books by categorizing them by subject and assigning those subjects to a number group. It seems to have fallen by the wayside with the advent of computerized categorizing and cataloguing, but some of your libraries in more remote areas might still have the card catalogs.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876; it has been greatly modified and expanded through 22 major revisions, the most recent in 2003.

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