Melvil Mondays: 900-909

We've finally reached the 900s, which are for "History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines." Here are the "standard subdivisions" for 900-909:

• 900 - Standard subdivisions of geography and history

• 901 - Philosophy and theory of history

• 902 - Miscellany of history

902 G888
The Timetables of History
by Bernard Grun

• 903 - History dictionaries, encyclopedias, and concordances

• 904 - Collected accounts-- "class here adventure"

• 905 - Serial history publications

• 906 - History organizations and management of history

• 907 - History research, education, and related topics

907.2 C77
History/Writing
By Albert Cook

• 908 - "History with respect to groups of people"

• 909 - World history-- "Civilization and events not limited by continent, country, locality."
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909.07 C17i v. 1-3
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages
edited by Robert Fossier

Melvil Mondays: 800-809

We're back to class here on The Hill, which means we're also back to Melvil Mondays. We resume in the 800-809s, "Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric." It's more fun than you might think! 

Once again, the 00-09 section of the 800s is reserved for the "Standard subdivisions" and for "rhetoric; collections; history, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures."

•  801 - Philosophy and theory (including "techniques and principles of criticism," as depicted here):

801.95 K63
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Mary Klages

• 802 - Miscellany

• 803 - Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances

• 804 - Unassigned

• 805 - Serial publications

• 806 - Organizations and management

• 807 - Education, research, related topics

and here's a fun (and crowded) one--

• 808 - "Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures"

808.042 H161
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
by Constance Hale

808.0666 S41
Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style
by Philip Rubens

  808.51 G17
Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
by Carmine Gallo

808.82 B55 1938-39 & 808.82 B55 1940-41
Best Broadcasts of 1938-39 and 1940-41
by Max Wylie

• 809 - "History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures"-- this can include biographies of critics. 

Melvil Mondays: 700-709

We're all the way to the 700-709s today-- "The arts." There's a lot of wild, wacky, and beautiful stuff in the 700s, and today we start out by looking at the first few "standard subdivisions" sections.

* 700 - Standard subdivisions of the arts, including decimal classes for philosophy and theory of the arts and even computer applications that are "used as a technique to support traditional techniques in the arts."

700.1 F85
But is it Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
by Cynthia A. Freeland

700.103 P76
Politics, Gender, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society
edited by Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers

* 701 - Philosophy and theory (of fine and decorative arts... just tack that onto the end of all of these categories!)

701.15 K91
Creative Sparks
by Jim Krause

* 702 - Miscellany

* 703 - Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances

* 704 - Special topics, including ethnic and national groups and iconography

704.0392 S44j
Jewish Art
by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna

* 705 - Serial publications

* 706 - Organizations and management

* 707 - Education, research, and related topics

* 708 - Galleries, museums, and private collections

* 709 - History, geographic treatment, and biography

Melvil Mondays: 600-609

We're running out of Mondays for the semester! This week we explore the 600-609 section, which is a relatively slim segment of our collection.

The 600s are for Technology (Applied sciences). This includes a great many things, and we sometimes refer to the 600s as the "catch all" block of the Dewey Decimal System. Much of it has to do with mechanical engineering, which is of course not a program that is or that has been offered at SHU. As a result, we only have a few shelves' worth of books in this call number range.


* 600: "Class here inventions."

How Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology
Translated from the German original, Wie Funktioniert Das? by George Allen
600.V21un

* 601: Philosophy and theory
* 602: Miscellany (the catch-all section of the catch-all section-- the true junk drawer of the DDC)
* 603: Dictionaries and other reference materials
* 604: "Technical drawing, hazardous materials technology; groups of people"

Hazardous Materials Chemistry
by Armando S. Bevelacqua
604.7 B57

* 605: Serial publications
* 606: Organizations
* 607: "Education, research, related topics"
* 608: Patents
* 609: History (like industrial archaeology), geographic treatment (of industry, production, and the related economics), and biographies of inventors and/or patentees

Melvil Mondays: 500-509

Back to the dusty, musty stacks today to check out the 500s. Well, actually, we hope they're neither dusty nor musty and we employ student aides and dehumidifiers toward that end, but--

Wait, where were we? Oh, right: in science and mathematics.

* 500: "Natural sciences: sciences that deal with matter and energy, or with objects and
processes observable in nature"

The next few numbers are "the usual": 

* 501: Philosophy and theory

The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
by John Horgam
501 H81
Also as an ebook!

* 502: Miscellany

Einstein Simplified: Cartoons on Science
by Sidney Harris
502.07 H31

* 503: Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances

* 504: unassigned

* 505: Serial publications

* 506: Organizations and management

* 507: Education, research, related topics

Re-Engineering Female Friendly Science
by Sue V. Rosser
507.1073 R82

* 508: Natural history. "Class here description and surveys of phenomena in nature."

* 509: History, geographic treatment, and biographies of those engaged in scientific and mathematical pursuits. 

 

Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science
by Charles Homer Haskins
509 H35

The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century
509.22 B61 v. 1 & 2

Melvil Mondays: The 300s

Monday, Monday...

It was too hard to pick one book from the 300-309 range, so we have a variety. The 300s are for the social sciences. You'll find "philosophy and theory" in the 300.1s, "miscellany" in the 300.2s, and "sociology and anthropology" in most of the rest of this range. This includes topics such as "Social interactions" and "Culture and institutions," so lots of good stuff in here.

Honey, I'm Home!: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream
by Gerard Jones
302.2345 J77

A Natural History of Love
by Diane Ackerman
302.3 A18

Why Empathy Matters
by J.D. Trout
303.372 T86

Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
by Randal Marlin
303.375 M34

Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women int he Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel
305.4896 I85

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
304.28 D53

History of Prostitution Among All the People of the World
by P.L. Jacob
306.7409 J15, vol. 1&2

Melvil Mondays: The 200s

Happy Monday!

We are already to the 200s! The 200s collect the religion books. The 200.1-.9 section contains "standard subdivisions" (ask our cataloging librarian, Adam Pellman); 201-209 are "specific aspects of religion," as well as "specific topic[s] in comparative religion, religions other than Christianity."

South and Meso-American Native Spirituality
edited by Gary H. Gossen
200.98 S72

Can Christians Be Educated?
by Morton Kelsey
207 K29

The Wild Goats of Sin Gedi
by Herbert Weiner
209.5694 W42

Melvil Mondays: The 100s

Welcome back!

This week we move on to the 100s. Hope your brain is warmed up and ready for this, because the 100s hold works on "Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, [and] psychology."

The 100s are books about philosophy in general. The 101-109s hold philosophical theory, "miscellany of philosophy," reference materials for the study of philosophy, and more.

Plato's Sun: An Introduction to Philosophy
by Andrew Lawless
100 L41

Introducing Melvil Mondays: The 000s

Aliens in the Skies:
The New UFO Battle of the Scientists
by John G. Fuller
001.9 F96

We're starting a new blog and social media series! We're going to be exploring some of the books in our print collection. (Yes, we still have a print books collection.)

We're calling this series "Melvil Mondays" in honor of Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System, which we use here at Seton Hill to organize our collection.

We'll be working our way through the different "hundreds," one "ten" at a time. So this week we'll look at a book located somewhere between 000-009, and next time we'll peek at a book from the 100-109s, and so on. Eventually we hope to wrap back around to the "zeros" and go through the "zero-tens" and then to the "one-tens," etc. We'll see how it goes. It's an untraditional way to meander through Dewey, but this path will let us explore different fields of knowledge without getting too bogged down in any one discipline at a time.

First up are the Zeros! Here you'll find "Computer science, information, general works." And weirdness.

001-006 ambitiously attempts to house "knowledge, the book, systems, computer science." The 007-009 have not been assigned anything.

Amusingly, "knowledge" includes .9, "Controversial knowledge." So you'll find books about UFOs smushed up against programming manuals for Linux.