WebDewey Number Building Tool: Literature and Table 3C. Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809

Note: The general approach to building numbers described here can be applied in any discipline, not just literature. See also posts 1 and 2 on using the number building tool in music.

Are you having problems using the WebDewey number building tool with Table 3C. Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808-809 in the 800
Literature (Belles-lettres) schedule?  

If so, let’s try an example of a work about literature with a theme: Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City, to which the LCSH "Prague (Czech Republic)--In literature" has been assigned.

Here is a summary of the instructions for using the WebDewey number building tool to build the DDC number 809.9335843712 Prague (Czech Republic)—literature—history and criticism.  (The format of the summary is modeled on the tables used in the WebDewey training modules for the WebDewey number building tool.)

Navigate to this number / span	Click	Number built so far	Caption of last number / notation added
809.933	Start	809.933	Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects
T3C--3583- T3C--3589	Add	809.93358	Historical themes of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds
930-990	Add	809.93358	History of specific continents, countries, localities; extraterrestrial worlds
T2--43712	Add	809.9335843712	Prague (Praha)

Does that answer all your questions about how to build the number?  If not, keep reading for details.

First, here is the summary from the catalog record:

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. This interdisciplinary study helps to explain why Prague - more than any other major European city - has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.

Here is the table of contents from the catalog record:

Women on the verge of history: Libuše and the foundational legend of Prague --
Deviant monsters and wayward women: the Prague ghetto and the legend of the golem --
The castle hill was hidden: Franz Kafka and Czech literature --
A stranger in Prague: writing and the politics of identity in Apollinaire, Nezval, and Camus --
Sailing to Bohemia: utopia, memory, and the Holocaust in postwar Austrian and German literature --
Epilogue: Postmodern Prague?

If you browse the Relative Index for "literature," you find:

Literature--history and criticism 809

The scope note at 809 History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures reads: "History, description, critical appraisal of works by more than one author in more than two languages not from the same language family." Since the work about Prague in literature treats more than two literatures, you can begin by considering subdivisions of 809. (The scope note has hierarchical force and thus applies to the subdivisions of 809.) Here is the Hierarchy box for 809:

You might drill down in the Hierarchy box from 809 to 809.933 Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects.  Or you might browse the Relative Index for "themes" and find:   

Themes--literature--history and criticism 809.933

You could then click 809.933 to see the full record.  Either way, you have now found the record with the base number that you will use. The same record also has the add note that you need.

Here is the Hierarchy box for 809.933 Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects:

Here is the Notes box with the add note that you need:

At this point, the Create built number box has no number in the title bar.  Inside the box appear only the number and caption 809.933 Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects plus a Start button:

If you click Start in the Create Built Number box, you can get the add note inside the Create Built Number box:

Since the add note calls for adding from Table 3C—32-39, the Hierarchy box now focuses on T3C—3 Arts and literature dealing with specific themes and subjects:

What notation from T3C—3 Arts and literature dealing with specific themes and subjects should you use? In the work being classified, Prague is treated more as an historical theme than as a travel theme. Also, at T3C—32 Travel and geography is the relocation note: "Civilization of places, comprehensive works on places relocated to T3C—358."  At T3C—358 Historical, political, military themes is the class-here note: "Class here civilization of places, comprehensive works on places [both formerly T3C--32], historical events." T3C—3 Arts and literature dealing with specific themes and subjects parallels the DDC schedule in general.  In DDC interdisciplinary works about a specific place including both travel and history are classed with history.  At 913-919 Geography of and travel in specific continents, countries, localities; extraterrestrial worlds is the class-elsewhere note: "Class interdisciplinary works on geography and history of ancient world, of specific continents, countries, localities in 930-990." There is a corresponding class-here note at 930-990 History of specific continents, countries, localities; extraterrestrial worlds: "Class here interdisciplinary works on geography and history of ancient world, of specific continents, countries, localities."  For more information about T3C—3, see these previous blog posts (here and here) and Table of Mappings: DDC 000-990 to Table 3C—3.  

Browsing the Relative Index for "historical themes" yields:

Historical themes—arts   T3C—358

Here is the Hierarchy box for T3C—358 Historical, political, military themes:

T3C—358 Historical, political, military themes is too broad for history of Prague as a theme, and in the Notes box for T3C—358, there is no add note that would allow you to make the number more specific.  Looking down in the Hierarchy box, you click T3C—3583-T3C—3589 because you think that record might have the add note you need.  Here is the Hierarchy box for T3C—3583-T3C—3589 Historical themes of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds:

Here is the Notes box for T3C—3583-T3C—3589; it includes the add note you need ("Add to base number T3C--358 the numbers following 9 in 930-990. . . . "):

Click Add to get the add note inside the Create built number box:

Now, how to specify Prague? You need to add notation from Table 2. Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography, but no add note now inside the Create built number box says anything about adding notation from Table 2.  The number-building tool has, however, gone to 930-990, which is mentioned in the add note you just put inside the Create built number box.  Here is the Hierarchy box for 930-990 History of specific continents, countries, localities; extraterrestrial worlds:

The long Notes box for 930-990 contains a large add table.  You won’t need any of the notation in the add table—but you do need the add instruction that introduces the add table, because it says to add notation from Table 2 ("Add to base number 9 notation T2--3-T2--9 from Table 2, e.g., general history of Europe 940, of England 942, of Norfolk, England 942.61; then add further as follows"):

When you click Add, the instruction to add notation from Table 2 is put inside the Create built number box: 

If you browse the Relative Index for "prague," you find:

Prague (Czech Republic) T2--43712

Here is the Hierarchy box for T2—43712 Prague (Praha):

After you click Add, the title bar of the Create built number box has 809.9335843712, and
T2—43712 Prague (Praha) appears inside:

If you click Save, the new built number appears in the Hierarchy box:

You now have an opportunity to modify or add to the user terms associated with that new number, as explained in the "User Terms with Number Building" part of the WebDewey training modules.  Enough for now! You have successfully built the number.   

Keys to success:
•    Find the record with the base number that you will use and the record with the add note that you will use (often the same record).
•    At each step, find the record with the relevant add note, display the full record so that the add note appears in the Notes box, and click Start or Add to get that add note to appear inside the Create built number box.
•    If a complete add table is displayed in the Notes box, but you don’t need a specific entry in the add table—rather, what you need is the add note at the beginning that introduces the add table—then click Start with the full Notes box displayed, to get that add note to appear inside the Create built number box.