A Dewey Decimal Presentation

By Sarah Dupuis

MEDT 6463

Fall 2009

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This presentation is appropriate for upper elementary, grades 3-5.

The purpose of this presentation is to show students and faculty alike how the Dewey classification system works. Also, coverage of who Melvil Dewey was and how he started his classification system is included. Students will learn how to look for and find materials appropriate to their research.

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Melvil Dewey, born in 1851, was reared in upstate New York. An avid simplified speller, Mr. Dewey shortened his own name from Melville to Melvil, dropped his middle names and even shortened his last name for a time to Dui. Working as a student assistant in a college library, Mr. Dewey began his classification system at the age of 21.

Although well known as a librarian and the founder of the American Library Association (ALA), it is for the Dewey Decimal Classification system that Melvil Dewey is best known. His library classification systems is used in most all libraries today.

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(2007)

How do I know where to look?

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(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)

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Dewey can help you find most anything!

(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)

000 Computer Science, information & general works

Librarian of Basra review

020WIN

032WOR

100 Philosophy and Psychology

152.4ALI

Feelings

100PHI

200 Religion

Faith like Mine Review

200

BUL

200GLO

(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)

300 Social Sciences

371 RAD

398.2SCH

Eyewitness Books Battle

355HOL

400 Language

Webster's Basic English Dictionary Review Grade 3 English/Language Arts Standard

423WEB

468WIL

428

ELL

500 Science

Eyewitness Books Astronomy Review

GPS Standard Grade 2

520LIP

510

TAN

600 Technology (Applied sciences)

630HAL

The Way Things Work Review

600MAC

636REA

700 Arts and recreation

781ARD

Cathedral Review

726

MAC

793GRY

800 Literature

808.8RAI

Please Bury me in the Library Review

Language Arts Standards, Grade 3

811LEW

821.008POE

900 History and geography

912

STE

920RUS

978MUR

973ENG

910.3KNO

Scholastic Atlas of the World Review

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How does it all fit together?

(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)

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With the Dewey Decimal System, you need only search for the name or call number of a book to find where its location on your library shelf.

Pets636.7

Ellis Island

325

Mammals599

Astronomy520

Plants581

Geology551

Explorers970

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Microsoft Office, 2003

Simply read the spine label to find your book.

Now, can you find these books?

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And for a super challenge…

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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky

Enjoy the hunt and always keep learning!

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References

(2007). [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/07/getting-dewey-eyed/

All other pictures, unless noted, are from Destiny 2009.