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Hello all,

 

Apologies for the previous incomplete post.  I had a mouse mishap!  

 

Thank you to all who replied to my target.

 

Original Target:  

 

During a lesson a using call #s today, a seventh grader asked what the
longest possible Dewey number might be.  Got my curiosity going, but
we're running around like a bunch of crazy librarians so I thought that
I'd see if someone on the list knows the answer.

 

Info and responses:

 

I didn't get a definitive answer to my Dewey number question, but I did
happen upon << 025.431: The Dewey Blog
http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/100199_philosophy_psychology/ >>  Wow!
These people are REALLY into Dewey!!!

 

<<< We used Dewey on the college level in my first job in 1980.  Holding
the spine label longways you could get 13 digits including the period.
We never went beyond 13 as nothing else could fit.  Some but not all of
our books were very subject specific so we went to the last number
recommended on CIP or on the Baker and Taylor Cards.  We never shortened
the number by dropping off the different sections as delineated by the
apostrophe.  As a cataloger, the longer the number was, the better,
however today I ne ed sometimes to remind myself that the library of
congress police are not watching how we catalog in a prek-5 library. >>>

 

<<< Put out as a challenge more than 'this is it' is   

"...791.436526230975091734, which is the number we mapped the other week
to the Library of Congress subject heading "Rednecks in motion
pictures." 025.431: The Dewey blog
<http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2005/09/classification_.html> 

025.431: The Dewey blog (grab your book to figure that one out) is
pretty geeky fun to read.

>>> 

 

<<< I can't prove this, but my professor, who consults with the Library
of Congress, said that the longest number in the LC is 25 numbers after
the dot. >>>

 

 

 

 

Dave Wee, Librarian

Harvard-Westlake Middle School

700 North Faring Road

Los Angeles, California 90077

Phone -- (310) 288-3270

E-mail -- dwee @ hw dot com

 

"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where
people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of
employing wild animals as librarians."

~~ Monty Python ~~

 


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