Re: Understanding Dewey Numbers

[Lawrence Newton <lwnewton@YAHOO.COM>]

Memorization of Dewey classes is a worthless endeavor,
but I do believe in teaching the classification
process; the exercize one of our colleagues mentioned;
giving unprocessed books to students and having them
assign numbers (with a printed copy Dewey in front of
them) is an outstanding way of teaching higher-order
thinking skills.
   But memorizing numbers reminds me of my college
course in library administration; we were required to
memorize the goals and objectives of all the major
library professional organizations.  I managed to
memorize most of them (enough to get a B, cite them, I
oculdn't have done it to save my soul.
   It is enough to explain the concept, and make sure
students understand how to use the catalog.  Anyway,
they will remember the numbers for sports and drawing
books, if nothing else.


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read."  Groucho Marx
Lawrence Newton, Librarian
Carnegie Elem. School,
Houston (TX) ISD
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