How to Use the How to Use the

Media Media Center Center at AMSat AMS

To find a book, you can go to the library online catalog, called Destiny.

There are two computers in the library, near the fiction section, dedicated to Destiny use. Simply open Chrome to access.

Destiny can be accessed from any computer, an AMS Library website and link to Destiny will be available soon.

The catalog looks like

this.

You can search for a book by typing in either the title, author, keyword, subject or series for which you are

looking and pressing the appropriate button.

Type it here.

Buttons

Title of

Book

Scroll down and scan the books shown. Then click on the title of the book you want, and you will get more information.

CallNumber

Authorof

Book

Available or checked

out

Description

Publishing info

A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters put together to tell you where in the library to find your book.

A call number is located at the bottom of the book on the spine.

FICCLE

SCDOY

Call Numbers

Once you've got your call number from the card catalog, it's time to go find your book!

The book Hatchet is a fiction book. That means it is a story made up by the author’s imagination. We can tell this because it has a fiction call number -

Call Number

FIC stands for fiction

PAU stands for the first three letters of the author’s last name.

The books in the Fiction section are arranged in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

To find Hatchet, you’ve first got to find the P’s.

If you’re having trouble finding your book, remember this rule for how books are arranged:

Left to Right; Top to Bottom

That means you start at the left on the top shelf

and move to the right until that section of shelf ends.

Then, you go to the next shelf beneath that

and do the same,

left to right, top to bottom.When you get to the end of the bottom

shelf, move up to the top shelf of

the next section, and continue...

left to right, top to bottom!

The call number will direct you to a certain section of the Media Center to find your book.

GNSMI

PCDOY

The Graphic Novel and Paperback Collection sections are also both arranged alphabetically by author’s last name.

This is a call number for a graphic novel.

This is a call number for a paperback fiction book.

BFRA

A call number that is made up of letter B followed by three letters is a biography call number.

The books in the Biography section are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the person about whom the books are written.

Biographies and autobiographies are all shelved together.

A biography is a book that tells the story of someone’s life.

Call numbers that start with at least three numbers followed by three letters are non-fiction call numbers.

Non-fiction books are true, factual books. There are

some exceptions, fairy tales, myths and legends are shelved with non-fiction

books.

796.33

BUC

Non-fiction and reference books are arranged using a system called the Dewey Decimal System.

Using DDS books are arranged by subject.

Books are divided into ten main categories, such as Science & Nature, and History & Geography.

Reference books start with the call number REF followed by at least 3 numbers then 3

letters.

REF423MER

Reference books contain easily accessed information. A dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia, almanac and thesaurus are all examples of reference books.