What is the Dewy Decimal System?

Answer 1

It's Dewey Decimal, after Melvil Dewey.

It is used in most public libraries in the United States. It is a classification system designed to get books on shelves and keep them organized.

Answer 2

The Dewey Decimal System is a system of library classification. It has been modified and expanded, the most recent in 2004.
Books are placed on the shelf in increasing numerical order; the whole number to the left of the decimal is in counting order, while the digits to the right of the decimal are compared one digit at a time, with a blank coming before zero. (Example: 050, 220, 330.973, 331 etc.) When two books have the same subject, and therefore the same classification number, the second line of the call number, which usually has the first letter or first several letters of the author's last name (of the title if there is no author), are placed in alphabetical order.

Answer 3

The classification system invented by Melvil Dewey, primarily used by public libraries, that by classifying knowledge, allows material to be catalogued according to a number. The primary breakdown runs from 000-900 and within each of these from 00-90 and again within these from 0-9 and so forth.

Answer 4

If you visit Google.com and type that term into the search box, you will learn ALL you could ever hope to know! However, you'll get better search results if you spell it right -- it's Dewey, not Dewy.

Anyway, good luck! :)

Answer 5

It is used in libraries to organize books. It is an international system, and uses call numbers such as 800- history, 900- languages, etc (those aren't the actually numbers, but yeah).

Answer 6

A guy named Dewey invented it to organize library books.

Answer 7

A categorization system for books and other items in libraries. Check out this article to see how it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_decimal_system