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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

000s

Reference & Generalities

033

General Encyclopedic Works in Other Germanic Languages

(i.e., besides English & Scandinavian)

multivolume Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon (general

encyclopedia)

100s

Philosophy & Psychology

100

Philosophy

Walch's Philosophisches Lexikon

177.6

Ethics of Social Relations: Friendship & Courtship

200s

Religion

203

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances of Christianity

multivolume Kirchliches Handlexikon

220

Bible

220.9

Geography, history, chronology, persons of Bible lands in

Bible times

223

Poetic Books of Old Testament

Psalms

225

New Testament

231.74

Christian Theology: God/Relation to the World/Revelation

Prophetic works, e.g., Scriptural meaning in current events

232.9

Family & life of Jesus

Jesus' inner life, devotional books to Mary, books about

miracles at Lourdes

235

Christian Theology: Spiritual Beings

Lives of the Saints

238.41

Creeds, confessions of faith, covenants, catechisms

Lutheran & Catholic catechisms

241.53

Christian ethics

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

242.2

Devotional literature for daily use

prayer books for general use

242.33

Devotional literature for Christmas

prayer books for Advent/Christmas

242.4

Devotional literature in times of trouble, bereavement

prayer books for challenging situations

248.82

Christian experience, practice, life: Guides to Christian life

for children (age 0-11)

Christian stories without specific Bible subjects, psalters,

readings & lessons for children

248.84

Christian experience, practice, life: Guides to Christian life

for adults

Christian stories without specific Bible subjects, psalters,

readings & lessons for all ages

253

Pastoral office & work

Group here biographies, journals and accounts of individual pastors, including texts of sermons (*1*); if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall); if in Low

German, 439.48 (*2*)

266

Missions

mission accounts, stories, reports

268

Religious education

catalogs of religious books

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

270

History of the Christian Church

Book of life portraits of historically significant Christian

persons

270.6

History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity: Period of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1517-

1648

Historical accounts of Martin Luther and Johannes Bugenhagen

280s

Denominations & Sects of the Christian

Church

282

Roman Catholic Church

284.1

Protestant denominations of Continental origin & related

bodies: Lutheran churches

if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall)

284.13

Lutheran churches: Denominations, branches, synods

centered in United States

if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall)

284.143

Lutheran churches: in Germany

if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall)

285.7

Reformed/Evangelical & Reformed churches

if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall)

285.8

United Church of Christ churches

if direct genealogical value, CH (Church Record Wall)

287

Methodist churches; churches related to Methodism

289.92

Other denominations & sects: Others

Jehovah's Witnesses

289.97

Unity School of Christianity

translation of Cady's Lessons in Truth

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(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

300s

Social Sciences

317

General Statistics of North America

Almanacs

348

Laws (Statutes), regulations, cases

Laws of Wisconsin (in German and English) concerning Town

Organization & Government

363.7

Social Problems & Services: Environmental Protection

Book about Wisconsin environment and environmentalists

366.1

Associations: Freemasonry

Book about Freemasonry's God

370s

Education

371

School organization & management

District/countywide school records

371.3

Methods of Instruction & Study

Public school curricula, books used in school settings

372.3

Elementary Education: Technology, science, health

Guides to elementary school health instruction

372.9

Elementary Education: Historical, geographic, persons

treatment

Elementary school reminiscences, yearbooks, records

373

Secondary Education

373.09

Secondary Education: Organization, management,

curriculums

Secondary school textbooks

373.7

Secondary education: Geographic areas & biography--North

America

High school yearbooks and records

390s

Customs, Etiquette, Folklore

391.3

Costume & personal appearance: Costumes of children

German & European boy & girl paper doll books

391.431

Costume & personal appearance: Northeastern Germany

Pomeranian Tracht

391.775

Costume & personal appearance: Wisconsin

Dress styles in Marathon County, WI

392.5431

Wedding customs: Northeastern Germany

Pomeranian wedding customs

394.243

Special occasions: Germany

German celebrations & festivals

394.2431

Special occasions: Northeastern Germany

Pomeranian celebrations & festivals

398.2

Folk literature

German-American folklore

398.243

Folk literature: Germany

Grimm's Fairy Tales; if in Low German, 839.48 (*2*)

398.2431

Folk literature: Northeastern Germany

Pomeranian folk tales

398.943

Proverbs: Germany

German proverbs

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

400s

Languages

425

Standard English: Grammar

427.9

English & Old English: Historical & geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations--outside England

Wisconsin linguistic diversity book

431

German & related languages: Writing systems, phonology,

phonetics

German handwriting deciphering aids

433

German & related languages: Dictionaries

German dictionaries; if Low German, 439.43 (*2*)

435

German & related languages: Grammar

German language primers and textbooks (in German or English); school readers in 438.6; Plattdeutsch/Low German

textbooks in 439.45

437.9

German & related languages: Historical & geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations--outside

Germany & Austria

German language in America book

438.6

German & related languages: Standard German usage

German readers, i.e., Lesebücher, Blätter und Blüten adult

readers

439.4

German & related languages: Low German (Plattdeutsch)

Histories/guides to Plattdeutsch; Plattdeutsch-related

conference programs & publications

439.43

Plattdeutsch: Dictionaries

Plattdeutsch dictionaries and vocabulary guides

439.45

Plattdeutsch: Grammar

Plattdeutsch textbooks and learning guides

439.46

Plattdeutsch: Standard Usage

Plattdeutsch in regular non-fiction texts

439.47

Plattdeutsch: Historical & regional variations, modern

nongeographical variations

Plattdeutsch recordings, radio broadcasts, ethnographic

research

439.48

Plattdeutsch: Standard Usage

Class here non-literary works in a Plattdeutsch language

(nonfiction, sermons, calendars, etc.)(*2*); These bear a secondary Dewey Decimal number reflecting subject; literary works in Plattdeutsch & Low German languages in

839.41-839.48

443

Romance Languages, French: Dictionaries

French dictionary

445

Romance Languages, French: Grammar

German-published French instructional textbook

475

Italic Languages, Latin: Grammar

483

Hellenic Languages, Classical Greek: Dictionaries

485

Hellenic Languages, Classical Greek: Grammar

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(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

500s

Natural sciences & mathematics

500

Natural sciences & mathematics

Natural history exploration work

510

Mathematics

529

Chronology

Perpetual calendar

540

Chemistry & allied sciences

Chemistry experiments for school & self-instruction

550

Earth Sciences

German-published natural history works

553.8

Economic geology: Gems

Amber

557

Earth Sciences of North America

Roadside Geology of Wisconsin

580

Botanical sciences

599

Mammals

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

600s

Applied Science & Technology

610

Medicine & health

Home medical guides

614.5

Incidence & prevention of disease

History of 1918 influenza epidemic

615

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

618.2

Obstretrics

Midwifery book

621.9

Applied physics: tools & fabricating equipment

Museum of Early American Tools book

625

Engineering of railroads, roads & highways

633.88

Field & plantation crops: medicine-producing plants

Ginseng cultivation

634.9

Orchards, fruits, forestry: forestry

Lumbering, logging & forestry

636.089

Animal husbandry: veterinary sciences

Home veterinary guide

636.9

Animal husbandry: other mammals

Mink farming (Fromm Brothers)

641.22

Food & drink: wine

German wine regions map

641.5

Food & drink: cooking

General cookbooks and cooking magazines

641.594

Food & drink: cooking of specific geographic environments,

ethnic cooking: Europe

European cookbooks/cooking

641.5943

Food & drink: cooking, specific geographic environments, ethnic

cooking: Germany

German cookbooks/cooking

641.59431

Food & drink: cooking, specific geographic environments, ethnic

cooking: Northeastern Germany

Pommern cookbooks/cooking

641.59436

Food & drink: cooking, specific geographic environments, ethnic

cooking: Austria

Tyrolean cookbook

641.5974

Food & drink: cooking, specific geographic environments, ethnic

cooking: Northeastern U.S.

Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook

641.5977

Food & drink: cooking, specific geographic environments, ethnic

cooking: North Central U.S.

North Central Wisconsin cookbook

648

Housekeeping

Household guides and tips; general household facts reference

books

651.73

Office services: communication

Palmer method of business writing book

657

Accounting

Blank account book published in Wausau, WI

690.8

Buildings

Cordwood construction guide

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(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

700s

Arts, Music, Sports

709

Historical, geographical, persons treatment of fine and

decorative arts

Book of world art history

728

Architecture: Residential & related buildings

728.92

Architecture: Farm Buildings

Wausau architecture; barns & round barns

759.43

Painting & paintings: Hisorical, geographical, persons--Germany (museums)

Works with images of paintings & watercolors of Germany, published or in museums; German artist biography;

photographic collections in 914.43

759.431

Painting & paintings (museums): Northeast Germany

Works with images of paintings & watercolors of northeastern Germany, published or in museums; photographic collections

in 914.431

760

Graphic Arts; Printmaking and Prints

771

Photography & photographs: Techniques, equipment, materials

Guide to properly storing photographs & paper artifacts

780

Music

Music dictionary

780.92

Music: Historical, geographical, persons

Biographies of Lutheran sacred music composers

782

Music: Vocal Music

Recorded & sheet vocal music

782.3

Music: Vocal Music: Services (Liturgy & Ritual)

Lutheran Gesangbücher/hymnals

782.4

Music: Vocal Music: Secular forms

Folk & popular songs

783.9

Music: Music for single voices: Other types of voice

Lutheran Hymnal

784

Instruments & instrumental ensembles & their music

Recorded & sheet instrumental music; polka music

786

Keyboard, mechanical, electrophonic, percussion instruments

Piano music book

788

Wind instruments (Aerophones)

Accordion instruction book

793.3

Indoor games & amusements: Social, folk, national dancing

Article on PVCW dancers

793.73

Indoor games & amusements: Games not characterized by action

-puzzles & puzzle games

Crossword puzzle books

794.1

Chess

Chess playing guide

799.3

Fishing, hunting, shooting: Shooting other than game

Schutzenfest tradition

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

800s

Literature

808

Rhetoric (including authorship & editorial techniques)

German style manual for writers

809

History, Description, critical appraisal

Critical/biographical rerview of author's work

811

American poetry

813

North American fiction

817

North American satire & humor

823

English fiction

Elizabeth von Arnim fiction

830

German literature

History of German literature

831

German poetry

Goethe poetry (Low German literature in 839.4x--x

depending on form)

832

German drama

Schiller drama (Low German literature in 839.4x)

833

German fiction

Low German literature in 839.4x

836

German letters

Memorial in honor of German author Berthold Auerbach (Low

German literature in 839.4x)

837

German satire & humor

Low German literature in 839.4x

838

German miscellaneous writings

Low German literature in 839.4x

839.41

Low German poetry

Reuter's poetry

839.43

Low German fiction

Lieselotte Clemens fiction

839.46

Low German letters

150-year review of Platt literature; Reuter museum publication

839.47

Low German satire & humor

839.48

Low German miscellaneous writings

Reuter's complete works

839.7

Swedish literature

871

Latin poetry

874

Latin lyric poetry

875

Latin speeches

878

Latin miscellaneous writings

881

Classical Greek poetry

882

Classical Greek dramatic poetry & drama

883

Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction

888

Classical Greek miscellaneous writings

891.86

Czech literature

895.11

Chinese poetry

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

900s

Geography & History

909

World History

910

Geography, travel, description: World

World atlases

914.43

Geography, travel, description: Germany

class in 914-917 photographic collections, travel

guidebooks & cultural guides

914.431

Geography, travel, description: Northeastern Germany

914.436

Geography, travel, description: Austria & Liechtenstein

914.437

Geography, travel, description: Czech Republic/Slovakia

914.438

Geography, travel, description: Poland

914.492

Geography, travel, description: Netherlands

914.494

Geography, travel, description: Switzerland

915.9

Geography, travel, description: Southeast Asia

Sketches of Borneo book

917

Geography, travel, description: North America

917.72

Geography, travel, description: Middle America/Mexico

917.75

Geography, travel, description: Wisconsin

917.7523

Geography, travel, description: Vilas County, WI

917.7525

Geography, travel, description: Oneida County, WI

917.7527

Geography, travel, description: Lincoln County, WI

Plat maps

917.7528

Geography, travel, description: Vilas County, WI

Plat maps

917.7529

Geography, travel, description: Marathon County, WI

Plat maps

917.75291

Geography, travel, description: Wausau, WI (*3*)

City directories

917.7531

Geography, travel, description: Forest County, WI

Plat maps

917.7535

Geography, travel, description: Langlade County, WI

Plat maps

917.7536

Geography, travel, description: Shawano County, WI

Plat maps

917.7544

Geography, travel, description: Chippewa County, WI

Plat maps

917.7552

Geography, travel, description: Wood County, WI

Plat maps

917.7553

Geography, travel, description: Portage County, WI

Plat maps

929.1

Genealogy research guides

SHELVED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 929.3

929.143

Genealogy research guides: Germany

SHELVED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 929.3

929.1438

Genealogy research guides: Poland

SHELVED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 929.3

929.1775

Genealogy research guides: Wisconsin

SHELVED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 929.3

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(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

929.2

Family histories

Call numbers arrange family histories alphabetically by subject

surname

929.3

Genealogical sources

Cuttered to group together census, passenger list, and Wisconsin/county items; CH 929.3 if a church record

genealogical source

929.343

Genealogical sources: Germany

929.3431

Genealogical sources: Northeastern Germany

929.3436

Genealogical sources: Austria

929.4

Personal names: name origins & baby names

929.5

Genealogical sources: Cemetery records

CH (Church Record Wall)

936

History: Europe north & west of Italian peninsula to ca. 499 CE

937

History: Italian peninsula to 476 CE

History of Roman Empire

940

History: Europe

Review of European culture & history

940.1

History: Europe before 1453

History of Europe in the Middle Ages

940.53

History: Europe: World War II

940.55

History: Europe: 1946-present

class history-related items in 930s & 940s

943

History: Germany (general histories)

943.05

History: Germany: 1705-1790

943.06

History: Germany: Napoleonic Wars 1790-1815

943.08

History: Germany: 1866-present

943.1

History: Northeastern Germany

943.51

Immigration, ethnic identity & cross-continent exchange (*4*)

Immigration without direct genealogical value (i.e., without name references); newsletters, reports, conference activity and information of organizations exploring/sharing German/Pommern heritage worldwide; if relates directly to Low German/Plattdeutsch

language, in 400s

943.6

History: Austria & Liechtenstein

943.7

History: Czech Republic & Slovakia

943.8

History: Poland

944.04

History: French Revolution

948.5

History: Sweden

History of Charles XII of Sweden

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Dewey Decimal

(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

970

History: North America, Natives of North America

972

History: Middle America/Mexico

973

History: North America (general histories)

973.1

History: North America to 1607

973.2

History: North America 1607-1775

973.3

History: American Revolution 1775-1789

973.7

History: American Civil War 1861-1865

976.4

History: Texas

977

History: North Central U.S.

977.5

History: Wisconsin

977.52

History: Northern Wisconsin

977.521

History: Washburn County, WI

977.526

History: Taylor County, WI

977.527

History: Lincoln County, WI

977.529

History: Marathon County, WI

977.533

History: Marinette County, WI

977.535

History: Langlade County, WI

977.552

History: Wood County, WI

977.553

History: Portage County, WI

977.545

History: Eau Claire County, WI

German-language newspaper published in Eau Claire, WI

977.564

History: Winnebago County, WI

977.581

History: Columbia County, WI

977.583

History: Dane County, WI

977.591

History: Washington County, WI

977.594

History: Milwaukee County, WI

977.7

History: Iowa

977.8

History: Missouri

978.2

History: Nebraska

978.4

History: North Dakota

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(DDC) Number

Description of Subject(s) covered by this DDC number

Classing Examples, Instructions, and Alternative locations

for items in this DDC number

CEMETERY RECORDS AREA

CEM 929.5

Cemetery records

CHURCH RECORDS AREA ("OS" indicates Oversized Items)

CH 253

Pastoral office & work

Biographies, journals & accounts of individual pastors, including sermon texts (*1*); if in Low German, 439.48 (*2*)

CH 284.13

Lutheran churches: Denominations, branches, synods centered

in United States

U.S. Lutheran parish histories, records and accounts with

genealogical value; 284.13 if no direct genealogical value

CH 284.143

Lutheran churches: in Germany

For Lutheran parishes in Germany, histories, records and accounts with genealogical value; 284.143 if no direct

genealogical value

CH 285.7

Reformed/Evangelical & Reformed churches

CH 285.8

United Church of Christ churches

CH 287

Methodist churches; churches related to Methodism

Methodist publications; Methodist parish histories, records or

accounts; 287 if no direct genealogical value

CH 929.3

Genealogical sources

General genealogical sources unconnected to a denomination or parish; non-church related genealogical sources in 929.3

MAP RESEARCH AREA

MAP 284.143

Lutheran churches: Denominations, branches, synods centered

in Germany

non-map material in 284.143

MAP 910

Geography & travel

Geography textbook; non-map material in 910

MAP 914

Geography & travel: Europe

MAP 914.43

Geography & travel: Germany

includes Postleitzahl (German postal gazetteer); non-map

material in 914.43

MAP 914.431

Geography & travel: Northeastern Germany

non-map material in 914.431

MAP 914.438

Geography & travel: Poland

MAP 917

Geography: United States

19th century U.S. railroad map

MAP 917.75

Geography: Wisconsin

MAP 917.7529

Geography: Marathon County, Wisconsin

GENEALOGICAL INDEXES AREA

GEN 929.3

Genealogical Indexes (to materials in Main Collection)

GEN 929.3431

Genealogical Indexes (to Northeastern German ancestors)

includes Myron Gruenwald's Die Vorfahren Index (and Die

Pommerschen Leute periodical)