SLPL Central: Religion and Social Sciences...

News about the "CI-Adult" location where you'll find books (with Dewey Call numbers from 000.01 -- 339.99) and magazines and databases with information about libraries, COMPUTER programs/devices, journalism, occult and PARANORMAL topics, philosophy, ethics, psychology/SELF-HELP, RELIGION, social groups/"...ISMS", civil & human rights, POLITICS, economics and more. Take a look at the tabs listing new books or link to some great websites about SS room topics. Welcome!

Monday, June 20, 2016

We're now on Twitter!

You can now follow the St. Louis Public Library Social Sciences room on Twitter @SLPLsocsci. (Who knows - maybe we'll follow you back...)

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WHERE DEWEY FIND NONFICTION @ CENTRAL LIBRARY?

Start Here!

In the early days of library science in America, Melvil Dewey began assigning numbers to the various subjects of nonfiction books so people could find books about similar topics close to each other in the library. His not-so-secret classification code--the Dewey Decimal System-- has been used to arrange books on the shelves of many public libraries in the U.S. ever since.
At Central Library, books with Dewey numbers starting with 000.01 -- 339.99 are located here on the 2nd floor of the library directly east of the Great Hall. (The Library's Grants & Foundation Center is also nestled on its own shelves available to the public in this room --see slplgfcnews.blogspot.com.) Melville Dewey assigned low numbers to these subjects because he considered them basic starting points for understanding the concepts and human interactions that affect our lives.
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Monday, June 20, 2016

We're now on Twitter!

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