The best place to begin your search is the Library of Congress Online Catalog. When you open a record for a book in the catalog, click on the Full Record tab at the top of the page and look for a field labeled “Dewey Class No.” If this field is listed, it will give the book’s Dewey classification.

Shelving Items in “Dewey Order” In the Dewey Decimal System, books are filed digit by digit, not by whole number. This means, for example, that our book at 595.789/BRO would come after 595.0123 and before 595.9. And again, after the decimal numbers come the letters from the author’s name (or title).

LC call numbers are read from left to right, and from top to bottom. The letters at the beginning of the call number are alphabetical. The numbers immediately following are in basic numerical order, i.e., 5 then 6, 50 is after 49 and before 51, and 100 is after 99.

All print or paper copies of books in the library are assigned a call number, usually found on the book spine. The call number represents what the book is about and acts like the book’s address on the library’s shelves or stacks.

7 Expert Tips and Tricks for Organizing Your Home Library

1. ASSESS YOUR ENTIRE COLLECTION.
2. PUT BOOKS WHERE YOU NEED THEM MOST.
3. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF VERTICAL SPACE.
4. GROUP SIMILAR BOOKS INTO SECTIONS AND SUB-SECTIONS.
5. TRY A CATALOGING APP.
6. STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN FASHION AND FUNCTION.
7. ORGANIZE KIDS’ BOOKS TO INSTILL A LOVE OF READING.

BookBuddy is a powerful book management app that gives you access to your entire book catalog, anywhere. Using BookBuddy is fun and easy, allowing you to quickly find any book in your library, share your favorite books, and keep track of borrowed and lent books. Some of our users manage more than 10,000 books!

The free Adobe Scan app works on your mobile device, scans documents into PDFs, and automatically recognizes text. Scan anything in a snap – Easily capture forms, notes, and multi-page reports. Make every scan picture-perfect – Preview scans to make sure they look just the way you want them to.

The iPhone now has a built-in document scanner — here’s how to use it. If you don’t have a scanner at home, it can be annoying to try and find a way to send documents to other people. Luckily, Apple has silently introduced a new document scanning feature that’s buried inside the iPhone Notes app.

The free app, CamScanner, converts images you take with your phone into PDF documents. According to security firm Kaspersky Lab, the app itself is safe; the problem deals with a third-party advertising library on CamScanner that secretly installed malware on victims’ phones.

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