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Please Talk Biographies . . . call numbers and groupings

In the Dewey Decimal System (DDS), biographies are listed within each subject area. This does make sense to me for a larger scale library operation. On the other hand, in our small library our patrons like to go to the Biography shelves to find a gre

Biography & Audiobook - What Call Letters to use?

If we use "B" for biography, would it be confusing to use "BCD" for book on CD (audiobook)? If we use BCD, would it be better to use Bio for biography? OR maybe use CDBk for book on CD (audiobook)? What are your thoughts / experience with this?

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Classifying missionary biographies

This may be a silly question, but I am wondering how you decide what biographies should be classified under 266.092 for missionaries or with the call letter B for all other biographies (except for Bible biographies). If it is clear the person is a m

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Please Talk Biographies . . . call numbers and groupings

Biography & Audiobook - What Call Letters to use?

Classifying missionary biographies

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