Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
At the end of this session you will be able to....
Locate Non-Fiction Books
At the end of this session you will know....
How the Non-Fiction books are ordered
How to use the Non-Fiction Spine labels
How to find Non-Fiction Books by main subject area & colour
Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Are you sitting comfortably?
Melville Dewey
Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Room 1
= 100’s
= Thinking
Room 2
= 200’s
= Religions
Room 3
= 300’s
= Community
Room 4
= 400’s
= Languages
Room 5
= 500’s
= Sciences
Room 6
= 600’s
= Technology
Room 7
= 700’s
= Sports, Arts & Hobbies
Room 8
= 800’s
= Literature
Room 9
= 900’s
= History & Geography
Room 10
= 000’s
= Reference e.g. Encyclopedias
Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
The next challenge is to complete the map of Mr Dewey’s house.
Write the correct Dewey number and
the main subject in each room
Don’t worry I’ll put the previous screen back on for you
But beware – things will start disappearing
so write quickly........
Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
Room 1
= 100’s
= Thinking
Room 2
= 200’s
= Religions
Room 3
= 300’s
= Community
Room 4
= 400’s
= Languages
Room 5
= 500’s
= Sciences
Room 6
= 600’s
= Technology
Room 7
= 700’s
= Sports, Arts & Hobbies
Room 8
= 800’s
= Literature
Room 9
= 900’s
= History & Geography
Room 10
= 000’s
= Reference e.g. Encyclopedias
Information Literacy
Information Literacy: Non-Fiction
To complete the challenge we will need to go into the MRC
In pairs your challenge
is to find out the colour of the
spine labels for each section
Each section has a certain colour spine label
Then colour in your map of Mr Dewey’s house
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