Melvil Mondays: The 400s

It's the last Monday of October! As we move into a new month, we also move into a new Dewey range: the 400-409s.

The 400s are for Language.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
by George Lakoff
401.9 L19

• 400: "Class here interdisciplinary works on language and literature." (I love librarian instruction manuals and guidelines; so reminiscent of "here there be dragons.") 

• 401: Philosophy and theory

• 402: Miscellany (I also love that we have these metaphorical "junk drawers" in our Dewey classes... though 402.85 is called out specifically for computer applications)

• 403: Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and concordances

• 404: ...Nothing to see here! It's "Unassigned." Move along, move along!

• 405: Serial publications

• 406: Organizations and management

• 407: Education, research, and related topics in linguistics

• 408: Groups of people (408.9 is "treatment of language with respect to ethnic and national groups")

• 409: Geographic treatment and biography