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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
All states have a dd number. They all start with 641.597
The 5 designates cooking, the 9 is international, the 7 is the United States, the next number is the region and then the state.
Amusing thing is desserts are 641.86, with longer numbers for cookies, cakes and pies.
Can you spot the person in this thread that actually at one point had all her cookbooks cataloged in access by DD number.
The LOC is actually simpler but also more general.
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Well, you can eliminate me as a possibility of being the one who cataloged all of the cookbooks by DD. First of all, because I didn't do it. Second, because I'm a "him" and not a "her." I'm taking a wild guess here that it might be . . . you? And, taking another wild guess, I'm guessing that if you are/were not a librarian, that you've had quite a bit of schooling in library science.
More really fascinating stuff about the DD and LOC, that you gave. My mother was an elementary school librarian for many years, has a Master's degree in library science, etc. I've always liked libraries and I think that the whole business of cataloging books is
cool. But I would never consider cataloging my cookbooks, of which I do have a very large number (mostly, at this point, in the dead-tree format). Nor would I ever consider cataloging my enormous library of other paper-format books. Probably for the same reason that you no longer have your cookbooks cataloged by DD. ha
Getting back more to what we're mainly supposed to be talking about on this website--ebooks--I do want, badly, to find some way to catalog the ones that I've got. It is a different matter being able to organize books on a physical shelf by subject, and being able to find what you want that way, but it is a whole different ballgame organizing ebooks, which can't be put on a (physical, at least) shelf.