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December 2008

Melville Dewey, the Dewey Decimal Classification System, Call Numbers, Card Catalog, and Destiny Quest. December 2008. Objectives:. The students will learn about Melville Dewey. The students will review what they know about the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

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December 2008

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  1. Melville Dewey, the Dewey Decimal Classification System,Call Numbers, Card Catalog, and Destiny Quest December 2008

  2. Objectives: • The students will learn about Melville Dewey. • The students will review what they know about the Dewey Decimal Classification System. • The students will understand what call numbers are and how they work in a school library. • The students will learn about the information on a card catalog. • The students will become familiarized with the new Destiny Quest.

  3. Melville Dewey (1851 – 1931) • Amherst College • A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library which is now in its 21st edition and contained in four volumes • Boston and founding the Library Bureau • American Library Association • American Library Journal • Columbia College • Director of the New York State Library

  4. The Dewey Decimal Classification System • 000 Generalities • 100 Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology • 200 Religion • 300 Social sciences • 400 Language • 500 Natural sciences and mathematics • 600 Technology (Applied sciences) • 700 The Fine arts and decorative arts • 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric • 900 Geography, history, and auxiliary disciplines

  5. Call Numbers “A call numberis a group of numbers and/or lettersput together to tell youwhere in the libraryto find your book.A call number is locatedat the bottom of the book on the spine. It helps you to find your books quicker. Once you've got your call numberfrom the card catalog, it's time to go find your book!” TWILIGHT TITLE F Mey 398.21 Sar

  6. G.I.S.D. District-Wide Call Number Standards

  7. 1. 6. Card Catalog 3. 5. 2. 7. FIC LEE Lee, Harper, 1926 - To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee -- [New York] : Warner Books, [1982], c1960. 281 p. ; 18 cm. Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8- year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. ISBN: 0446310786 1. Fathers and daughters – Fiction. 2. Race relations – Fiction. 3. Trials (Rape) – Fiction. 4. Girls – Fiction. 5. Southern States – Fiction. I. Title. 1. Main entry (Author’s name) 2. Title proper 3. Statement of responsibility 4. Publisher 5. Place of publication 6. Date of publication 7. Physical description area 8. Notes 9. Tracings 10. Subject headings (Subject headings are preceded by Arabic numerals). 11. Title added entry 4. 8. 9. 10. 11.

  8. Destiny Quest • New Interface • Top 10 check-outs from our lmc • New Arrivals • More User-Friendly • Home/Classroom Use

  9. Questions/Comments? • Now’s the time to ask ~ Please do so! • Thank you for your time and I hope that you’ve all learned something new today.

  10. Bibliography • Library.thinkquest.org/5002/ • www.booktalking.net/books/dewey/ • www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/ddchow.html • www.scottpublib.org/dragon/Dewey.html • www.who2.com/melvildewey.html

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