Leopard/Cheetah Tuesday
December 9
Photo facts…
Born up a tree.
Cheetah Video…
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The following facts came from The Fact Site.
10th December – Dewey Decimal System Day.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), also known as the Dewey Decimal System, was invented in 1876 by a librarian named Melvill Dewey, and it was revolutionary.
For those of you who think it’s something to do with math, like myself, then please try to stay with me, it’s actually a universal library sorting system.
Before Mr. Dewey, libraries were ordered by the size, weight, and date of purchase of the books in the library, which made research even more difficult than it is today.
Since its inception, the DDC has had 26 revisions, starting out as a pamphlet but growing to a full four volumes long!
The DDC is used in over 135 countries and divides knowledge into 10 classes (Computer Science, information & general works, Philosophy & Psychology, Religion, Social sciences, Language, Science, Technology, Arts & recreation, Literature, and History & Geography), each with another 10 divisions, and each of those divisions has 10 different sections.
This universality allows anybody to walk into any of the over 200,000 libraries that used the DDC, armed with a number, let’s say 746.92; a little looking and you will have found yourself in the fashion design section (or shelf, depending on the size of the library).
The DDC is online too, so you can find the number you need before you go all the way to the library.
So go to the library today, armed with your knowledge of all the weird decimal numbers on the shelves.