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Welcome to the Penny Road LMC Tutorial for Finding
Books!
The KEY = The Call NumberThe Call Number = The spine label on the
book
Example: Panda Bears
by John
Larson Call
Number
Title: Panda BearsAuthor: John LarsonCall Number = Dewey classification
number First 3 letters of the
author’s last name.
599 Lar
Do all call numbers have numerals?No, some have only letters.
Examples:
E.A.S.Y. Section Fiction Section Fiction Section
Story Collection
Story Collection
Biography Biography
E Seu
F Osb
SCDis
B Lin
Why the name “call numbers”? We’re not calling anybody!
Long ago there were fewerlibraries,sometimes with smaller collections of books.
Visitors were not allowed to go into the book shelf area to pull a book offthe shelf.
Instead, a library visitor had to look in a card catalog and write down the call number to give to a library worker.
That person would go find the book in the closed book area and bring it out to the visitor.
The visitor had “called” for the book by writing down the call number for a library worker to go find the book.
In certain libraries, this is how it is done even now.
At Penny Road you write down the call number and find the book yourself.
But if you have any trouble, be sure to ask for help!
Why do we need call numbers?Answer: To sort the books.
Think of the grocery store. . .
The grocery store has the same kind of thing in one
place. For example, the milk is with the dairy foods, and carrots are with vegetables.
Wouldn’t it be silly to see carrots for sale in the dairy case!
In the library, the same kind of booksare together. For example, all the
Magic Tree House books are in theFiction Section, under Osb, the first 3 letters of the author’s last name.
All Dr. Seuss books are in the Seu partof the E.A.S.Y. Section.
The books are classified so that all of the same kind are together!
What does classified mean? How are books classified?
•Classified means librarians looked at the book and decided how to sort it—where to put it on the library shelves.
•A library book is classified by the kind of book it is, what it is about. •There are only TWO (2) main kinds of books:
Fiction and Nonfiction•Then, there are different kinds of fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction --means False, not true
F or FIC -- Regular Fiction, imagined stories, mostly words
E -- “Everyone Always Says Yes to Books” -- mostly picturesSC – Story Collection – several stories
in one book, by one author or by different authors
Nonfiction--means true, Not Fiction
B -- Biography, the true story of a person’s lifeR or REF – Books used for Reference,
in a special nonfiction area000-999 -- Nonfiction books sorted
by the Dewey Decimal System of Classification
What are the letters on the bottom line of the call number?
Remember: The last line on each spine label—call number—is usually the first three letters of the author’s last name.
FictionArranged in A-B-C order by the first three letters of the
author’s last name.
NonfictionArranged in number order. If the numbers are the same, use the first three letters of the author’s
last name.**Exception: For Biography, use
the last name of the person written about in the book.
FGif
FGrecomes before
599.73Tay
599.8Ath
comes before
599.8Ath
599.8Marcomes before
Biography• Biography is a special section in some libraries,
in the B section.• Some libraries (not Penny Road) use the Dewey number
920 for collective biography (one book about more than one person) and 921 for individual
biographies.• Either way, the bottom line is the first letters of the
famous person, NOT the author.
BWas
PBBAsh
BLin
PBBMon
Paperback Biography about Arthur Ashe
Biographyabout AbrahamLincoln
Paperback about Claude Monet
Biography about George Washington
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
In 1876 a college librarian named Melvil Dewey came
up with a way of sorting library books into ten main kinds of books.
Then, under each major kind (or class), there are ten other divisions, then ten sudivisions under each
division, and so on.
The Ten Major Classes of the Dewey Decimal System
1. 000 – 099 General Works2. 100 – 199 Philosophy3. 200 – 299 Religion4. 300 – 399 Social Science 5. 400 – 499 Languages 6. 500 – 599 Natural Science7. 600 – 699 Technical and Applied
Science8. 700 – 799 Fine Arts and Recreation9. 800 – 899 Literature10.900 – 999 History, Geography and
Biography
How do we find the call number?Use the Destiny library catalog program.
On the Catalog screen, type what kind of book you want, or the title, or the author if you know.
The call number is listed right below the title. Example: PB 599.74 StaFrom the list, click on the
title of the book.
The call number is in a box to the left of the title.
PB 599.74
Sta
What does the call number tell us?
What does the PB mean?The book is paperback; it has a soft cover that bends easily. At Penny Road, paperback books have PB above the regular call number. PB are in the same section where they would be if they were hardback, usually on the top shelf of the section or at the start of the section.
What is the 599.74?That is the Dewey number. It means this book is nonfiction. We need to look by the numbers in the last part of the 500 section.
Remember what this is?Sta is the beginning of the author’s last name for this book. Nonfiction books are shelved by the number. If the numbers on several books are exactly the same, then we use A-B-C order by the last name of the author.
Other special Letters in the Call Number
NC -- North Carolina 320.8 sectionWhi
PROF -- Professional Library372.1 Cha
PRC -- Parent Resource 320.8 CenterWhi
Just here at Penny Road!
Just here at Penny Road!
Other puzzling letters and/or numbers? Ask for help!
VTA -- Videotape808.88Rea
MAP -- Map, 917.3 laminatedNat PIC -- Picture,
598.2 laminatedBir
VF -- Vertical612 FileSch
Sections just for parents and teachers
Summary • The key is the call number.
•Some call numbers have only letters.
•Mainly, there are two kinds of books: Fiction and Nonfiction.
•Biography books are sorted by the last name of the famous person, NOT the author.
•Melvil Dewey created a classification system that is based on ten main classes, or kinds, of books.
•Use the Destiny program to find the call number for a book.
•In Penny Road Library Media Center (LMC) the paperback books are on the top shelves or at the beginning of the sections where they would
be shelved if they were hardback books.
Remember to ASK for help if you have trouble finding what you need!
Presentation © 2009 by Evelyn Chevalier
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