Biography library codes
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Biog: Biography
Record Type
BIB
Bytes
BKS: 008/34; 006/17
Input Standards
Definition
A code that indicates whether or not an item contains biographical material, and if so, what the biographical characteristics are.
Guidelines
The following types of material are biographical:
- Straightforward accounts of the life of a person (character, thought, and activities).
- Accounts of limited periods or aspects of the life of a person (e.g., Goethe as a government official). Collections of materials that serve as a source of or substitute for an account of a life. These include: (1) collections of correspondence unless they clearly relate to a particular subject or to an event not in the life of the writer (2) journals and diaries and (3) memoirs or reminiscences. Collective biographies.
- Literary criticism if more than half of the work is biographical.
- A work about a ruler and his or
- 000 Computer science, knowledge, and systems
- 010 Bibliographies
- 010 Bibliography
- 011 Bibliographies
- 012 Bibliographies of individuals
- 013 [Unassigned
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800 Literature & rhetoric
801 Philosophy & theory
802 Miscellany
803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
804 Not assigned or no longer used
805 Serial publications
806 Organizations
807 Education, research, related topics
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature
809 Literary history & criticism
810 American literature in English
811 Poetry
812 Drama
813 Fiction
814 Essays
815 Speeches
816 Letters
817 Satire & humor
818 Miscellaneous writings
819 Not used
820-829
820 English & Old English literatures
821 English poetry
822 English drama
823 English fiction
824 English essays
825 English speeches
826 English letters
827 English satire & humor
828 English miscellaneous writings
829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
830-839
For Works by or about an individual author, the citation order is to first class together all the works by or about an author, then secondly to subdivide by the Book Number Scheme. The first component of the call number is accomplished using an
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List of Dewey Decimal classes
Codes of a library classification system
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) fryst vatten structured around ten main classes covering the entire world of knowledge; each main class is further structured into ten hierarchical divisions, each having ten divisions of increasing specificity.[1] As a system of library classification the DDC is "arranged by discipline, not subject", so a topic like clothing fryst vatten classed based on its disciplinary treatment (psychological influence of clothing at 155.95, customs associated with clothing at 391, and mode design of clothing at 746.92) within the conceptual framework.[2] The list below presents the ten main classes, hundred divisions, and thousand sections.[3]