The Dewey Decimal Classification—conceived by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and first published in 1876—is an organization tool that is continuously revised to keep pace with current knowledge.
At LACC's Martin Luther King Library, the numbers to keep in mind for literature are the 800s. The Fiction Collection is organized by authors' last name in alphabetical order and is located on the second floor of the Library.
For Works by or about an individual author, the citation order is to first class together all the works by or about an author, then secondly to subdivide by the Book Number Scheme. The first component of the call number is accomplished using an abbreviated or modified Dewey class number and an author cutter number. This is followed by the locally devised UIUC book number.
Literature & Rhetoric Dewey Decimal Numbers:
800 Literature & rhetoric
801 Philosophy & theory
802 Miscellany
803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
805 Serial publications
806 Organizations
807 Education, research, related topics
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature
809 Literary history & criticism
810 American literature in English
811 Poetry
812 Drama
813 Fiction* (Fiction is located on the second floor, organized by Author's last name)
814 Essays
815 Speeches
816 Letters
817 Satire & humor
818 Miscellaneous writings
820 English & Old English literatures
821 English poetry
822 English drama
823 English fiction
824 English essays
825 English speeches
826 English letters
827 English satire & humor
828 English miscellaneous writings
829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
830 Literatures of Germanic languages
831 Early to 1517
832 Reformation, etc. 1517-1750
833 Classic period, 1750-1830
834 Post classic & modern, 1830-1940/50
835 Contemporary authors not already established in the UIUC catalog, 1940/50-
836 German dialect literature
837 German-American
838 German miscellaneous writings
839 Other Germanic literatures
840 Literatures of Romance languages
841 Old and early French to 1400
842 Transition & renaissance periods, 1400-1600
843 Classical period, 1600-1715
844 18 th Century, 1715-1789
845 Revolution to present, 1789-1940/50
846 Contemporary authors not already established in the UIUC Catalog, 1940/50-
847 French Canadian
848 Provencal
849 French dialect literature
850 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic
851 Early period to 1375
852 Classical learning, 1375-1492
853 1492-1585
854 1585-1814
855 1814-1940/50
856 Works in and/or about Italian dialects
857 Sardinian
858 Romanian (including Wallachian)
859 Rumansh, Rhastian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Moldavian
860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
861 Early to 1400
862 1400-1553
863 Golden age, 1554-1700
864 1700-1800
865 1800-
866 Works in and/or about Iberian dialects other than Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese, including Asturian/Bable, Aragonese, Navarrese, Ladino, Sephardic, Morisco, Aljamia
867 Catalan
868 Portuguese
869 South/Central American Literature
870 General works on Latin literature
871 Latin Authors
872 Collections of Latin prose or poetry
875 Medieval and modern Latin literature, 500 A.D. - date
879 Classical literature-History and criticism
880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
881 Greek Authors
882 Collections of Greek prose or poetry
885 Modern Literature in the Ancient Greek Language
889 Literature in Medieval and Modern Greek
890-891.49 Indic Literature
891.5 Iranian/Persian Literature
