April 09 Dewey

Do You Know Dewey?

Media Specialist: Mrs. Starr

DBMS: Media Center

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Dewey Decimal System

The Dewey Decimal System (DDS) is a system used to classify books by grouping them in 10 categories.

DDS uses a decimal system to organize library books

I'll bet you're wondering who came up with this idea.

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Who Invented this System?

Melvil Dewey

December 10, 1851 and died December 26, 1931.

He was a librarian

In 1876, he started the American Library Association

He published the first Library Journal, a magazine about library trends & book reviews.

He started the first library school in 1887 located @ Columbia University.


Dewey Basics

Not all books in nonfictionare nonfiction

Exampels are:Folk/Fairy Tales & Riddles: 398

Poetry: 811Plays: 812

Fiction can actually be classifiedin 813

Most libraries put them in aseparate section like our library

Fiction or Non-Fiction??Numbers for all books

Fiction or Non-Fiction

Fiction

Fiction - Books that are made up by the author or not true/real are fiction.

Non-Fiction

Books that are nonfiction (true) are about real events, people, places, and things.




Fiction

Fiction books are “shelved” in alphabetical order by the author's last name.

If you wrote a book and your last name was Meyers. People who liked your book might want to read more of them, by having your books shelved in the same place would make finding them a lot easier.

F

MEY

F for Fiction

First 3 letters of the authors last name

Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction books are shelved by their subject's category.

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Books Are Shelved by Call #

left-to-right, top-to-bottom

Start at the left on the top shelf, move to the right until the shelf ends.

Then, you go to the next shelf beneath that and do the same, left to right

When you get to the bottom shelf you go to the back to the top “top to bottom”.



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What is a Call Number?

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

It is located at the bottom of the spine of the book.

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

Call # location

Author last name: 1st 3 letters

112.9

CAY


Dewey Decimal Number

A Dewey call number always has 3 numbers to the left of the decimal.

To the right of the decimal, there is no limit on number.

The more numbers to the right of the decimal, the more specific the subject is.

664.805652

110.9

110.92

CAY

Call # location

Author last name

000’s General Works

"How do we organize information?”

General Works Books that contain a lot of different information in them.



100’s Philosophy

"Who am I?"How we think & what we feel: 100s - Psychology and Philosophy



200’s Religion

When you want to learn about religions… yours & theirs

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300’s Social Science

Learning how people get along together is…Social Sciences

Customs (along with fairy tales & folk tales), Government, Holidays, Military

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400’s Languages

When we communicate with each other.




500’s Natural Science

When we want to learn about nature








600’s Applied Science/Technology

How we change nature to fit our needs












700’s Fine Arts & Recreation

Things we do for fun…












800’s Literature

Play’s, Poetry, & Stories– Fiction used to be in this section!












When we want to know about other countries of the world

When we want to learn about our past

*So we can improve our future*

900’s Geography & History


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Contains books about people’s lives

Autobiography = books written about the person by that person

Biography =books about a person’s life

Biography

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10 Areas Broken Down

April 09 Dewey

Education

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