How to Organize Your Personal Library with Dewey Decimal System

Instructions

• 1

  Sort the books
  
  You need to separate the books in two categories, fiction and non-fiction.
• 2

  Check the non-fiction books for organizing
  
  You need to look inside the non-fiction books for checking the copyright information. This copyright page will most probably be located near the front page and it includes information like publishing information, copyright information and cataloguing information. Going further down, you will see numbers which represent Dewey Decimal classification of the book. In case it is written 202.3, then you can use this number along with writing the first or first three letters of author’s last name. If the writer’s last name is Cruise, you can write 202.3 C or 202.3 Cru on the label. This will be of great use in case you have many books on the same topic.
• 3

  Write the book’s number and paste the label
  
  You need to write the book’s number on the label and then paste it on the spine of the book. You need to place the label about two inches higher from the bottom of the spine. In case the spine is too thin, you can place the label on the bottom left side on the front. After placing you need to cover the label with packing tape. By this the label won’t peel off.
• 4

  Be creative for books with no cataloguing information
  
  You should be creative when dealing with books which have no cataloguing information. In case you have two books of cooking, then you can use same numbers for both but with different authors’ initials. You can also check the Dewey Decimal number of that book from your local library or internet and jolt it down.
• 5

  Fiction books
  
  For fiction books, you need to use the author’s last name. You can jolt down the full last name or first few letters for identifying.