As someone who works in a public library, I have kind of absorbed a lot of Dewey Decimal Classification by osmosis. If you want to find information about football, a copy of the latest Lonely Planet guide on Tibet, recipes for Mexican cookery, manuals on how to use Microsoft Excel, a biography on Princess Diana or instructions on how to build a pergola, I’m your woman.

As a LIS student, however, I am required to develop a much deeper knowledge of Dewey classification. When cataloguing books I will need to use WebDewey, an online program designed to help classify books according to a strict set of (very confusing!) guidelines. It helps, though, to have a general ‘feel’ for what is right when you are working in this program.

Fun stuff

This post is really a bit of fun, showcasing some of the cool infographics I have found in my quest to commit Dewey categories to memory. I’m aware that most of them were designed with children in mind, but that’s okay, we must walk before we can run!

(hover your cursor over the images to see their source)