What does a NONFICTION
call number look like?

Next, there is the call number that we use for nonfiction books and that is the
Dewey Decimal Number.
A Dewey call  number always has
three numbers
to the left of the decimal. 

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So, even if it is in the 000's
(we call this the zero hundreds)
it would be written like this:

Difference
Between
FIC and NF

How FIC and NF
are shelved

001.9

What is a call number?

(At NIC, we always pronounce
the zeros as "oh" and pronounce
the decimal as "point".)

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What does a
FICTION
call number
look like?

To the right of the decimal, there is no limit on number.
The more numbers you add to the right of the decimal,
the more specific the subject is.

For example, the Dewey number for the
commercial processing of kidney beans is
664.805652 !!   

What does a
NONFICTION
call number
look like?

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