We've made great progress on revamping our library, but I'm confused. I purchased the book A Classification System for Church Libraries and it's adding to my question. I'm making new spine labels for all our resources as in their current categories books/topics can be extremely difficult to locate.
In the past, I had placed books on individuals (men, women, marriage, etc.) in the 248 section (248.8+ whatever other necessary decimals to keep them grouped properly). But I see that when I search certain books online they are listed with a dewey number of 305.+ and 306.+
If married people are 248.844 when would I use 306.8 which says it is for marriage and family?
We only have Christian books in the library, so should I not use the 305 and 306 numbers so that everything stays together? (I still have 649 as parenting as suggested).
Thanks for your help!
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What a helpful discussion! It confirms what I've now done in our library. I hoped I did the right thing.
Before going through the marriage & parenting books, there were inconsistencies as to classification. In addition, the spine labels needed to be redone due to major fading. I still use 248.8 numbers for specific people groups like "Christian Men" or "Christian Women", but use the 306/649 numbers for marriage & family which seems to expand well for our purposes.
I expanded 306.8 from the big Dewey.