Dear Ben, I found at http://www.anthus.com/CyberDewey/4-digit_DDC.html:
296 Judaism 296.1 Sources 296.3 Doctrinal, moral, social theology 296.4 Traditions, rites, public services 296.6 Leaders, organization, religious education 296.7 Religious experience, life, practice 296.8 Sects and movements and based on it and the numbers assigned to related books in the MARC records from the Library of Congress, it looks like 296.4 is in the right ballpark. In fact, if you go to the Library of Congress search page, http://catalog.loc.gov/ and search for siddur, you can click on the titles and then (on the resulting screen) click on 'full record' and sometimes see the Dewey number for the books. Not all books have Dewey numbers listed here, but enough do that you can get a sense of what numbers work. If you just use 296.4 and don't try to refine the number to more decimal places, you can probably lump all the prayer books there; or do you want to separate them further? No doubt someone will suggest that you use the Elazar classification scheme instead. I use Dewey for my day school library because I want the students to learn it. Good luck and, if I can help further, let me know. Rose Myers Edith Scheinberg Library Hillel Academy Fairfield, CT Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
