Shelf labels
Earlier this week the dust covers I ordered arrived. This meant that I finally could put the protective, transparent plastic cover on those new hardcover books that came with dustcovers. Now, that I finished wrapping all these books I could shelf them. As our shelves are very tightly packed already and there was about 50 new books to squeeze in it meant some creative rearrangements on my end. The end result is that we have a stable allocation of books on all shelves, for now. By stable, I mean that it is unlikely that I would need to move large number of the books in the near future.
This is another moment in the history of the library I have been waiting for, because finally I could label the shelves. Thus I spent the rest of the afternoon with writing down the range of classification numbers of the books and figured out what label would be the best for each shelf. Then I printed these on color papers and taped to shelves themselves. I share the list of labels I printed below, because I think it helps to remind me what a wide variety of books we have. And these labels do not even cover all the kinds of books we have, because I did not want to put more than one or two labels on each shelf.
Bible and Biblical Studies (001-099)
Commentaries on the Torah (016)
Nevi’im (025)
Ketuvim (050)
Apocrypha (070)
Ancient Near East (090)
Classical Judaica (100-199)
Post-Talmudic Halakha (120)
Jewish Thought (135)
Jewish Theology (136)
Kabbalah (150)
Medieval Jewish Thought (170)
Modern Jewish Thought (175)
Jewish Folklore (185)
Jewish Observance and Practice (200-299)
Jewish Religious Movements (210)
Rites of Jewish Personal Living (222)
Jewish Liturgy (230)
Jewish Calendar (235-265)
Comparative Religion (290)
Psychology (390)
Hebrew and Jewish Languages and Sciences (400-499)
Jewish Literature (500-599)
Jewish Literature – Criticism and Analysis (530)
Jewish Literature – Anthologies (550)
Jewish Literature – Individual Works (560)
The Jewish Community – Society & the Arts (600-699)
Women (619)
Social Conditions and Problems (650)
The Jew in the World (660)
Anti-Semitism (662)
Jewish Graphic and Plastic Arts (670)
Mass Media (690)
Cooking and Culinary Arts (699)
Jewish History, Geography, Biography (700-799)
History – 9th-19th Centuries (730)
Holocaust (736)
Concentration Camps (736.1)
Jewish Resistance (736.2)
Rescue Operations (736.5)
Survivors (736.7)
Sephardic and Mediterranean Jewry (750)
Ashkenazic and Eastern European Jewry (760)
Western European Jewry (765)
United States Jewry (770)
California Jewry (777.1)
African Jewry (790)
Collective Biography (798)
Individual Biography (799)
Autobiography (799.1)
Israel and Zionism (800-899)
Eretz Yisrael (820)
Israel Statehood (1948-) (828)
Israel – Geography (830)
Israel – Government and Politics (840)
Israel – Economics and Development (855)
Israel and the Middle East (890)
General Works (900-999)
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