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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One tumbler showed a complex set of numbers, remarkably similar to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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(, ,)
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
An article [this website] about the reported impending demise of the Dewey decimal classification system appeared in yesterday’s Sun Times Group papers which follows below.
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In Wikipedia:
“The term remains in use among librarians and others who have to classify books: while a large library might have separate categories for essays, letters, humor and so forth (and most of them are assigned different codings in, for example, the Dewey decimal classification system), in libraries of modest size they are often all grouped together under the heading” belles lettres”.
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In Wikipedia:
The Library Service utilizes the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Gilbert library to be first to drop Dewey Decimal Yvonne Wingett The Arizona Republic May. 30, 2007 12:00 AM When the new Gilbert library opens next month, it will be the first public library in the nation whose entire collection will be categorized without the Dewey Decimal Classification System, Maricopa County librarians say.
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In Wikipedia:
Ranganathan headed the Indian Library Association from 1944 to 1953, but was never a particularly adept administrator, and left amid controversy when the Delhi Public Library chose to use the Dewey Decimal Classification system instead of his own Colon Classification.
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In Wikipedia:
The Library is well stocked with more than 27000 books classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System, several encyclopedias and 800 CD ROMs spanning all aspects of Engineering, Sciences, Management and Technology.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Let’s just say I’m not going to try and initiate them into the Dewey Decimal Classification System just yet.
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In Wikipedia:
The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988.
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In Wikipedia:
The Library follows the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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(S1 (S (NP (DT The) (NNP Library))
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(NP (DT the) (NNP Dewey) (JJ Decimal) (NN Classification) (NN System)))
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In Wikipedia:
In 1893 the library moved to the second floor of the new Village Hall in 1893 and the library’s collection was reorganized according to the new Dewey Decimal Classification system in 1896.
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In Wikipedia:
Although the noted librarian Ranganathan was a strong proponent of a faceted classification system for library materials, he did not succeed in replacing the pre – coordinated Dewey Decimal Classification system with his faceted colon classification scheme.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, and the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system of library classification.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Aslan Lynx wants to understand the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
At the moment, therefore, its use is mainly limited to technical libraries and enjoys nowhere near the support of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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(S1 (S (PP (IN At)
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In Wikipedia:
The library has some 450,000 books and 90,000 journals housed primarily on its Levels 1 and 2 of the building, which are organised such that the elements of the collection particularly relevant to the University’s science and technology students, 500–699 in the Dewey Decimal Classification system, are housed together on Level 1 and the remaining stock primarily arts, humanities, social science and computing are on Level 2.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Because of this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by the OCLC (owners of the Dewey Decimal Classification system).
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
My own bookshelf residents (there are books in absolutely every room in our house) have been grouped according to subject, in an arrangement loosely based on the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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In Wikipedia:
ICPL maintains a popular collection that spans the entire range of the Dewey Decimal classification system.
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(. .)))
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