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Originally posted by sigma:

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Originally posted by chemguru:

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Originally posted by sigma:

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Secondly, books are catagorized by the "world's most widely used library classification system" known as the Dewey Decimal System.

"The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, devised by library pioneer Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and owned by OCLC since 1988, provides a dynamic structure for the organization of library collections. Now in its 22nd edition, and available in print and Web versions, the DDC is the world�s most widely used library classification system."

Source: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/

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You must not have gone to college. At least not yet.

Universities and Research Institutions don't use Dewey Decimal. They use the Library of Congress (the one the gov't created, like he said) system which does break items down into categories unlike the DDC which simply uses numbers. The Bible is indeed placed under "Non-Fiction", "Historical", and "Religious/Spiritual".

The DDC is well-suited to small libraries because it's easier to learn and use and is better suited on libraries with only a few books, but for bigger libraries the standardized LoC system is used.

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...Typical American egotism. Out of four university libraries I've visited in the US, only ONE used LCC. Georgia Southern University (which I worked at), Georgia Tech, and Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga are ALL Dewey based. UNCA was LCC. Oxford (yeah, THAT Oxford) is DDS.

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The only thing "egotistical" was your assumption that I was referring to non-US institutions at all considering that the LoC system is only rarely used outside the US. And since the entire conversation revolved around "our government's system" I thought it was rather obvious we were referring to the US government and its' system used primarily in its' country.

Call me egotistical if you want, but trying to correct someone when you have no idea what you're talking about is just ignorant. I'm happy for you that you know what the DDS is and can copy-paste some information about it, but you can't correct something that was never in dispute. There is nothing "not quite" right about what was said -- the LoC system classifies the Bible exactly as stated.

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