Transcript Do you know Dewey? - Dubuque Community Schools

Do you know Dewey?
An introduction to the
Dewey Decimal Classification System
John F. Kennedy Elementary School Library
You can find books at
the Kennedy School Library,
the Roosevelt Middle School Library,
the Carnegie-Stout Public Library,
and MOST libraries thanks to the
Dewey Decimal Classification
(also know as “DDC”).
It is used to locate and store books
on shelves in the library.
Meet Dewey
• Melvil Dewey was a librarian who
invented a DECIMAL
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
for library books.
• This classification system is called
the Dewey Decimal System!
• Melvil Dewey also founded the
American Library Association in
1876 and published the first Library
Journal AND he opened the first
library school in 1887!
• Libraries would not be the same
without him!
QUICK QUESTION
TIME!
• What is the difference between
FICTION
and
NON-FICTION?
FICTION books are made up by the
author and are
NOT TRUE.
NON-FICTION books are about
REAL things, people, places and events
and
ARE TRUE.
Now that you know who Dewey is and have
reviewed fiction vs. non-fiction,
let’s get started on learning more about this
famous classification system!
How to find FICTION and NON-FICTION
books in the library:
• FICTION books are
found in alphabetical
order by the author’s last
name.
All the books written by the same author
will be located together in the fiction
collection.
• NON-FICTION books are found
according to SUBJECT.
If you wanted to find a book
about skateboarding, you will
find ALL books about
skateboarding in the same
area. Books written by
DIFFERENT authors about
ONE subject.
(Non-fiction books are not
shelved by the author’s name).
796.22
is the call
number for
books about
skateboarding
Call numbers are your friends!
• A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters
that tell you the location of a book in a library.
• Just like you have a street address in your city, a
book has a shelf address in a library!
If you have been invited to someone’s house, you need to know the
address to be able to find it.
A book address is it’s
CALL NUMBER.
• A call number is located on the spine of a book. Once
you find the call number from the online catalog (we’ll
learn how to do that later), it’s time to go find your
book!
The Left to Right,
Top to Bottom Rule!
1.
To find a book on the shelf, start at the left on the
top shelf and move to the right until the shelf end.
2.
Go to the next shelf underneath and do the same!
3.
When you get to the bottom shelf, move UP to the
top shelf of the next SECTION and do the same!!
Think of the library shelves as
bookcase sections.
Left to right and top to bottom.
FICTION BOOKS
• Fiction books are indicated with an “F” on the first
line (for Fiction) and the second line indicates the
first 3 letters of the author’s LAST name:
This is what
the spine label
would look like
for a book
written by
Roald Dahl.
F
DAH
Use the online catalog to locate the shelf area
for a fiction book by searching by
TITLE or AUTHOR. . .
• TITLE
SEARCHES should be the exact title, if
possible.
Example: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
•AUTHOR SEARCHES are done using the last name
first.
Example: Dahl, Roald.
NON-FICTION BOOKS
• A call number for a non-fiction book looks like
this:
This is the call
number for a
book about
skateboarding,
written by
Tony Hawk.
796.2
HAW
For non-fiction books,
BOTH the subject call
NUMBER and the first
three LETTERS of the
author’s name, help
to keep the library
organized!
Use the online catalog to find the call number
of a subject you are looking for . . .
Once you have the number for the book you need, you can
go find the right shelf.
Look for the painted bricks to guide you!
The books on each shelf are arranged in
number order on the first line and by the
first 3 letters of the author’s name on the
second line.
They are in
number order
FIRST (to keep
the subject or
topics together),
398.2
398.2
398.25
BRE
GRI
BRE
and
alphabetically
by the author’s
last name.
You will probably notice that when you
find a specific book, other books shelved
around it are usually books about similar subjects.
That’s how the DDC is arranged—
by SUBJECT.
All of the books about
insects
are near each other on the shelf,
all of the books about
horses
are near each other,
all of the books about
weather
are near each other
and on and on and on and on!
The DDC is divided into 10 “categories” or subject areas.
The major Dewey Decimal divisions are:
000
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
-
Generalities
Philosophy & Psychology
Religion
Social Science
Language
Natural Science & Mathematics
Technology & Applied Sciences
Arts
Literature
Geography & History
You’ll see all of these numbers on the
LEFT side of the decimal point.
But what about the numbers on the
RIGHT side of the decimal point?
796.22
The numbers on the right side are used to
divide a specific subject into
EVEN MORE specific parts of a subject.
•700’s ~ Arts and Recreation
•796 ~ Athletic & outdoor sports & games
•796.22 ~ Skateboarding
•796.32 ~ Football
•796.33 ~ Baseball
A Dewey call number always has three numbers to the left of the
decimal. To the right of the decimal, there is no limit on number.
The more numbers you add to the right of the decimal,
the more specific the subject is!
Look at the call number to find the type of
book you are looking for!
When doing a subject search about baseball, you will find
both fiction and non-fiction book titles:
Baseball Jokes and Riddles by Matt Christopher
818 CHR
The Catcher’s Mask by Matt Christopher
F CHR
Baseball Just For Kids by Jerry Kasoff
796.357 KAS
Baseball’s Hall of Fame by Harvey Frommer
920 FRO
Casey Back at Bat by Dan Gutman
811 GUT
Abner and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman
F GUT
Don’t let this confuse you! ALL books COULD be classified under
the Dewey Decimal System . . .
. . .just because it is IN the nonfiction section
does not mean it is NOT FICTION.
Some examples of books in
the DDC that are fiction:
Folk and Fairy Tales
398.2
and
Poetry
811
The Dewey Decimal Classification number for
fiction books is 813.
Dividing the library into fiction chapter books,
picture books, and biographies helps to further
divide the library so that books are easier to find!
What have you learned about the DDC?
What section of the library would YOU
find the following books in the Kennedy
School Library?
000 - Generalities
100 - Philosophy &
Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Science
400 - Language
500 - Natural Science &
Mathematics
600 - Technology &
Applied Sciences
700 - Arts
800 - Literature
900 - Geography &
History
Sign Language for Kids
by Lora Heller
419
HEL
000 - Generalities
100 - Philosophy &
Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Science
400 - Language
500 - Natural Science &
Mathematics
600 - Technology &
Applied Sciences
700 - Arts
800 - Literature
900 - Geography &
History
A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein
811
SIL
000 - Generalities
100 - Philosophy &
Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Science
400 - Language
500 - Natural Science &
Mathematics
600 - Technology &
Applied Sciences
700 - Arts
800 - Literature
900 - Geography &
History
Dubuque, Iowa: Then & Now
by John Tigges
977.739
TIG
Books can really
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