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 Dewey Decimal System  The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes.  The ten main classes are each further subdivided into ten divisions, and each division into ten sections, giving ten main classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections.  DDC's advantage in using decimals for its categories allows it to be purely numerical, while the drawback is that the codes are much longer and more difficult to remember as compared to an alphanumeric system.  Still used by some institutions.

 000 – Computer science, information and general works 000 – Computer science, information and general works  100 – Philosophy and psychology 100 – Philosophy and psychology  200 – Religion 200 – Religion  300 – Social sciences 300 – Social sciences  400 – Language 400 – Language  500 – Science (including mathematics) 500 – Science  600 – Technology and applied science 600 – Technology and applied science  700 – Arts and recreation 700 – Arts and recreation  800 – Literature 800 – Literature  900 – History and geography 900 – History and geography Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage over its chief American rival, the Library of Congress Classification system developed shortly afterward, is its simplicity.

 Used at MVNU  The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress.  It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries; for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C.  Not subject heads but classification—uses a combination of letters and numbers  What follows on the next page is only a part of the system (literature)

 Subclass P - Philology. Linguistics  Subclass PA - Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature  Subclass PB - Modern languages. Celtic languages  Subclass PC - Romanic languages  Subclass PD - Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages  Subclass PE - English language  Subclass PF - West Germanic languages  Subclass PG - Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language  Subclass PH - Uralic languages. Basque language  Subclass PJ - Oriental languages and literatures  Subclass PK - Indo-Iranian languages and literatures  Subclass PL - Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania  Subclass PM - Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages  Subclass PN - Literature (General)  Subclass PQ - French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature  Subclass PR - English literature  Subclass PS - American literature

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