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The Dewey Decimal System is a way of numbering and organizing volumes within a library.

[NB: You may wish to be careful about this; the Dewey Decimal System may be copyrighted. The one created by the Library of Congress is not copyrighted]

000 /Generalities

100 /Philosophy and psychology

200 /Religion

300 /Social sciences

400 /Language

500 /Natural sciences and mathematics

600 /Technology (Applied sciences)

700 /The arts

800 /Literature and rhetoric

900 /Geography and history

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-This is a version I have assembled from various
-sources, printed and web. Needs to be further wikified.
-The fact I include this in the [[Wikipedia]] does not constitute
-an endorsement of this System as suitable for any purpose.
---OprgaG
-My intention is to wikify all of the subsections and move them
-to sub pages.  Like OprgaG, I'm not sure for what purpose this will be suitable, but I think it is a nice overview of the kinds of things that Wikipedia will enventually be full of.  So we can wiki these pages, and then watch them magically turn into links over the next 2 years.
-An idea: it may be useful when we begin to enter bibliographical information or references to libraries.
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-(Generalities, 000-099 have been moved to their own page.  I
-intend to move all of these sections.  Anyone want to help?
-We should wiki as many words as we can along the way.)
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-All moved now. Would someone like to add a small intro about the history of the Dewey decimal system?