Lehigh University Library & Technology Services
The Dewey Decimal System
The Ten Main Classes
000 - Generalities
100 - Philosophy and Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Sciences
400 - Language
500 - Natural Sciences and Mathematics
600 - Technology (applied sciences)
700 - The Arts
800 - Literature and Rhetoric
900 - Geography and History
Most Frequently Used Subtopics
000 - Generalities
030 - General encyclopedic works
050 - General serials and their indexes
070 - News media, journalism, publishing
100 - Philosophy and Psychology
150 - Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Sciences
310 - General statistics
320 - Political sciences
330 - Economics
340 - Law
370 - Education
380 - Commerce, communications, transport
400 - Language
500 - Natural Sciences and Mathematics
510 - Mathematics
520 - Astronomy and allied sciences
530 - Physics
540 - Chemistry and allied sciences
550 - Earth sciences
560 - Palentology, paleozoology
570 - Life sciences
580 - Botanical sciences
590 - Zoological sciences
600 - Technology (applied sciences)
610 - Medical sciences, medicine
620 - Engineering and allied operations
650 - Management and auxiliary services
658 - Business
660 - Chemical Engineering
670 - Manufacturing
690 - Buildings
700 - The Arts
720 - Architecture
780 - Music
790 - Recreational and performing arts
800 - Literature
900 - Geography and History
920 - Biography, genealogy, insignia
970 - General history of North America
Location of Materials in Fairchild Martindale Library
Books:
001-010 - FM-3-North
016 - FM-3-North
130-139 - FM-3-North
150-159 - FM-3-North
300-399 - FM-3-North
500-649 - FM-4-North
650-659 - FM-3-North
660-699 - FM-4-North
Journals:
All current issues located FM-2-South
001-010 - FM-3-South
016 - FM-3-South
130-139 - FM-3-South
150-159 - FM-3-South
300-399 - FM-3-South
500-539 - FM-3-South
540-699 - FM-2-North
Microform (FM-1-MFORM)- FM-1-South (near ILL, Photocopiers)
Government Documents (FM-2-DOCS) - FM-2-South
Reference and Ready Reference (FM-1-Ref or FM-1-RRef)
- FM-1-North
Indexes FM-1-INDEX (North side); also older
editions at FM-3-South, center section
Reserve (FM-1-Res) - FM Circulation desk
Location of Materials in Linderman Library
010-099 - L-0-Rotunda
100-299 - L-0-Upper
400-499 - L-3-Stacks
700-759 - L-2-Rotunda
760-799 - L-3-Rotunda
800-899 - L-3-Stacks
900-929 - L-0-Upper
930-999 - L-0-Lower
Reference - L-1-Ref
Reserve- L-Reserve- Linderman Circulation Desk
Special Collections - L-Bayer (located on the
3rd floor)
last modified: 5/3/2001