Organization of Knowledge
Dewey Classification
Name: ________________
Directions: Used the Abridged Dewey Guide to determine a Dewey # for each of the following:
(each item is worth 1/4 points)
Abortion : the continuing controversy. New York : Facts on File,
c1984. Reprints of newspaper articles explore the issue of
abortion in relation to the Supreme Court, politics,
government funding, and family planning.
363.46 Abo
Abortion
Abortion – Law and legislation
Milne, Antony. The fate of the dinosaurs : new perspectives in
evolution and extinction. Bridport, Dorset [England] :
Garden City Park, NY : Prism Press ; Distributed in the USA
by Avery, c1991. Discusses the most likely reason dinosaurs
became extinct and examines various theories concerning
them
567.9
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs - Evolution
Extinct Animals
The world of motorcycles : an illustrated encyclopedia. London :
Orbis Publishing Ltd., Distributed by Columbia House, 1977.
v.2.Ben/Cara -- v.3.Carb/Cycle -- v.4.Cyl/Dun --
v.5.Dut/Frame -- v.6.Fran/Hand -- v.7.Hand/Ins --
v.8.Isl/Lev -- v.9.Light/Mot -- v.10.Moto/Nor --
v.11.Nort/Pre -- v.12.Pro/Rok -- v.13.Rom/Ser --
v.14.Serv/Sprint -- v.15.Sprite/Torque -- v.16.Tour/Ven --
V.17.Ves/Wool -- v.18.Wor/Zun; History of motorcycles
1869-1912 -- v.19.History of motorcycles 1913-1949 --
v.20.History of motorcycles 1950-1979 -- v.21.Motocross --
v.22.Champions.
627.227
Motorcycles- Encyclopedias
Motorcycles – History
(note, if you have the 16 th or 18 th version, Encyclopedias and History are added as subdivisions from the
List of Commonly Used Subdivisions found in the preface of Sears). The subdivisions are not easily derived in the 17 th version.
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Gebhardt, Richard H. The complete cat book. 1st American ed.
New York : Toronto : New York : Howell Book House ; Collier
Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
Guide to cats that covers every aspect of buying and owning
a cat in addition to discussing forty three breeds of cats.
636.8 Geb
Cats
Child, Julia. The French chef cookbook. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, 1973.
641.5944
French Cooking
Cookery (Note: this was the term used in older versions of SEARS)
Bready, James H. Baseball in Baltimore : the first hundred
years. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, [1998].
796.357
Baltimore Orioles (Note: you would need to know that was name of the team in the book)
Baseball – Maryland – Baltimore- History (might be hard to get this out of Sears based on what we have done)
Aaron, Hank. I had a hammer : the Hank Aaron story. New York :
HarperCollins, 1992, c1991. Describes the career and
experiences of the baseball player who broke Ruth's home run
record.
921 Aar (This is the number most commonly used for biographies in libraries, other possibilities listed in the abridged Dewey)
Aaron, Hank., 1934 -
Baseball players – United States
Kirchberger, Joe H. The First World War : an eyewitness history.
New York : Facts on File, 1992. Provides firsthand accounts
of the war from memoirs, speeches, letters, and newspapers.
940.3 Kir
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 – Personal narratives (note – remember the Key Headings page in the preface of
Sears guides you to use World War, 1939-1945 as a guide for further deriving subdivisions for all wars).
Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-. The Lusitania disaster : an
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episode in modern warfare and diplomacy. New York : Free
Press, [1975].
940.4515 Bai
World War, 1914-1918—Naval operations
Lusitania (Steamship)
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York : Bantam, 1982. A true account
of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family
in a Nazi concentration camp.
940.53 Wie
World War, 1939-45—Personal narratives
Rabinowitz, Dorothy. New lives : survivors of the holocaust
living in America. New York : Avon, 1977, c1976.
940.5318 Rab
World War, 1939-45—Personal narratives
Holocaust, 1939-1945—Personal narratives
Smead, Howard. The Afro-Americans. New York : Chelsea House
Publishers, c1989. Discusses the history, culture, and
religion of the Afro-Americans, their arrival in North
America, and their acceptance as an ethnic group.
973.0496 Sme
African Americans
African-Americans—History (note, if you have the 16 th or 18 th version, History is added from the List of
Commonly Used Subdivisions found in the preface of Sears).
Smith, Gene. Lee and Grant, a dual biography. New York :
McGraw-Hill, c1984. Interweaves the lives of these two
historical figures in their early years before the Civil
War, in their roles as determined adversaries, and in their
later lives when they continued to be involved in their
nation's fate.
973.7902 Smi or 920 Lee
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
Grant, Uylsses S., 1822-1885
United States- History-Civil War, 1861-1865 - Biography
Confederate States of America – Biography
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Generals - Bioraphy
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. New York, :
Russell & Russell, [1968, c1953].
973.715 Qua
United States- History-Civil War, 1861-1865 – African American Participation
The Blockade : runners and raiders. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, c1983. Relates naval encounters of the Civil War and the Union blockade of the South, including battles of the first ironclads and some adventures of Southern privateers.
Stansbury, Henry D. Maryland's 117th Trench Mortar Battery in the World War,
1917-1919, : by Henry D. Stansbury. [Baltimore] : Rainbow (42nd) Division, [1942].
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