The Call Number, Volume 4, Number 6, March 1943 Page: 23
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CAIL IL NUV1IiENE IL
STAFF
Editor for the month....................................... .Carmen Ramsey
Nine-two-one*.....**...-* ......o....* ..................Mabel Douglass
Government publications and the ;wrar....,. .......... , ..........,Jean Banks
Typists...... . ..... . .,N ary Lucille Rodgers and Bobbie Horne
LEDITO" IAL
The two cumbersom :.volumes that the Library Service:.Depart ment is so
proudly displaying are the foirteeuth edition of Decimal Classification,
by Dewey and the four ;h'edition of the Standard at-a.. for high school
libraries. It is int resting to note sone of 1 eTecha:gesfton previous
e it-i ons "
The 1942 Dewey h is expanded many numbers, notably 770 (photography);
355 (army); anTdZ .]3 (aeronautics). The editors have aimed to be fore-
sighted enough not te have to add new numbers for some time to come. In
f:-ct, to our earth-cl ained minds, they appear to have taken qui ne a leap
into the future rith their astronautical number: 629.1388 (interplanetary,
interstellar flight) ,
The 1942 High school catalog also indicaLes changes in its policy of
classification.? The outtanoin' one is the use of 810 for American litera-
ture which had formerly been put with English literature in 820. Some
therer changes from the 1937 catalog are:
342.73 Constitution (Formerly 353)
612.6 Sex education (Formerly. 613.9)
791.4 Moving pictures (Formerly 778).
791.5. Marionettes and puppets (Formerly 792)
618.2 Diet (Formerly 641)
582.13 TVild flowers (Formerly 583)
The arrangement now corresponds to that of the Childrei's catalog,
-ith the classified list coming alter the dictionary catalog.
Vol, March94. ._ No. 6
N*T'S.T.C, Library Service Department Denton, Texas
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