DDC Online Training: Choice of Number Review

A new module being posted to the Dewey online training web site is a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Choice of Number Review.”  The presentation is accompanied by a set of exercises.  For further information about our overall online training effort, see our previous blog entry.

As a result of successfully completing this module, learners will be able to apply basic rules to choose correctly among multiple potential base numbers.  This is also one of the objectives of the Technical Introduction to the DDC.  This review module is intended to reinforce the learner's grasp of these key rules before the learner embarks on a more difficult module, such as Number Building: Add Tables.  While the principles being taught in the review module are the same as in the relevant portion of the Technical Introduction to the DDC, the examples and exercise items are different.

This module presupposes some level of mastery of the principles taught in the Technical Introduction and Introduction to Table 1 modules.

Comments

[Bob Wenten]

I'm a civilian, not a library professional. I'm looking for an appropriately symbolic and meaningful Dewey number to put on a cemetery footstone for my Mother, a career librarian who loved most of all teaching children how to find books that they would enjoy and learn from in a public library. The headstone will contain the usual biographical dates, so the footstone is the place for a Dewey number. No explanation will go with it. Just the number. Any suggestions?

[Giles Martin]

The Dewey number for public libraries is 027.4

[Rebecca]

Also for consideration: The Dewey number for children's librarianship is 027.625.