Dewey Decimal System

The Dewey Decimal System

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Literacy4-6 Grade

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The Dewey Decimal System

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What is the Dewey Decimal System?

Have you ever been to the library and wondered how we keep track of all these books? The library has a system called the Dewey Decimal System and it helps organize all those books.

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How would you organize books?

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The Dewey Decimal System was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1800s. He was a library guy and was hired by a library in Massachusetts to run their library. However, he ran into a problem. While fiction books were easy to organize based on the author's last name, non-fiction books, books that are based on real facts, events or people, couldn't work the same way. Think about trying to look for a book about trees by author! It would be impossible, especially since many non-fiction authors and publishers write about multiple topics.

The Dewey Decimal System was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1800s. He was hired by a library in Massachusetts to run their library. However, he ran into a problem. While fiction books were easy to organize based on the author's last name, non-fiction books, books that are based on real facts, events or people, couldn't work the same way. Think about trying to look for a book about trees by author! It would be impossible, especially since many non-fiction authors and publishers write about multiple topics.

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Dewey made 10 categories into which all non-fiction books could be placed. He then gave each category a

name based on the information

presented in the books.

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