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Shelving Library BooksBy Call Numbers

LBMS Library

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The book collection is divided into:

Fiction

and

Non-Fiction

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Fiction books can be found in the following collections:

General Fiction

Short Stories(Story Collection)

In the LBMS library, the call

number for Short

Stories is SC followed by the

first three letters of the author’s last

name

SC

SC CRU

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What is a CALL NUMBER?

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A call numberis a group of numbers and/or lettersput together to tell youwhere in the libraryyou can find a book.Think of the call number as the ADDRESS of the book. It lets you easily find a single item out of thousands in the library!

A call number is locatedat the bottom of the book on the spine.

FIC

PAU

FIC

PAW

Fiction and Nonfiction Call Numbers

• Nonfiction call numbers begin with a Dewey classification number, and then the first three letters of the author’s last name on the 2nd line.

• In our library, Fiction call numbers begin with FIC, and then the first three letters of the author’s last name on the 2nd line. It’s still a call number even though there are no numbers in it!

599

GIB

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FICTION CALL NUMBERS CAN LOOK DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT LIBRARIES

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MORE FICTION CALL NUMBER EXAMPLES

This is what the Burneson Library uses

First 3 letters of author’s last name

•Fiction Books are arranged alphabetically by author’s last name using the call number as a guide.

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•If one author has more than one book, his books are grouped together & then arranged alphabetically according to title. Articles A, AN, and THE are ignored when arranging titles alphabetically ONLY WHEN THEY COME AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TITLE. See examples below:

Fiction Books

Author Title of Book

Shan, Darren Hunters of the dusk

Shan Darren The Lake of Souls

Shan, Darren Lord of the Shadows

Shan, Darren Trials of Death

Shan, Darren Vampire Mountain

Shan, Darren The Vampire Prince

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Fiction Books•Fiction Books are arranged alphabetically by author’s last name.•If two or more authors have the same last name, books are grouped together & arranged alphabetically according to the first name of the authors, and then alphabetically by title (ignore A, An, and The at the beginning of the title). See examples below:

Brooke, Lauren After the Storm

Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man

Brooks, Bruce What Heart

Brooks, Kevin Martyn Pig

Brooks, Terry The Scions of Shannara

Brooks, Terry The Sword of Shannara

Brooks, Terry The Talismans at Shannara

Brooks, Bruce comes

before Brooks,

Kevin, and Brooks, Terry

is last

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Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Adams, Douglas Mostly Harmless

Anthony, Piers Realty Check

Armstrong, Jennifer The Kindling

Asimov, Isaac Fantastic Voyage

Barron, T.A. Heartlight

Barron, T.A. The Lost Years of Merlin

Barron, T.A. The Merlin Effect

Bechard, Margaret Spacer and Rat

Same AuthorBook Title --H comes before

M

Same Author—Titles in Order by

First Letter

Author’s last names are in

strict alphabetical

order

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Now you try it. Arrange these books in the correct order for shelving fiction. Write your answers on your worksheet.

MacLachlan, Patricia Baby

MacHale, D.J. Black Water

Mahy, Margaret The Magician of Hoad

Mackey, Mary The Widow’s War

MacHale, D.J. The Lost City of Faar

Mack, Tracy Drawing lessons

McKay, Robert The Running Back

Martins, Albert Pinned

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Check Your Answers

MacHale, D.J. Black Water

MacHale, D.J. The Lost City of Faar

Mack, Tracy Drawing lessons

Mackey, Mary The Widow’s War

MacLachlan, Patricia Baby

Mahy, Margaret The Magician of Hoad

Martino, Albert Pinned

McKay, Robert The Running Back

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000’s – 900’s

Biographies Have a 92 call number in this

library

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Not all books in the Dewey Decimal System are Nonfiction

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1st 3 letters of author’s last name

Dewey Decimal

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Series booksBooks that are series are marked with a red dot and dots below so you know what series that book goes

with.

These are 3 series by the same author. The first series has numbers and one dot (or can have no dot); the second series has two dots below the number, and the third series has three dots. Shelve the series together.

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000’s – 900’s• Non-fiction books are arranged numerically on the

shelf by the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Books in the Dewey Decimal system are filed digit by digit, not by whole number.

• When you shelve non-fiction books, the Dewey Decimal System puts together in a group all books with the exact same whole number. Next arrange these books by the last name of the author. If two or more authors have the same last name, then use the first name to arrange the books.973 Allen, Thomas

973 Baker, Jeffery

973 Douglas, Donald

973 Douglas, Frederick

973 Douglas, John

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DEWEY DECIMAL CALL NUMBER FOR NON-FICTION BOOKS

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DEWEY DECIMAL NUMBERS CONTINUED

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Dewey and Decimals

Think of a Dewey number as if it were dollars and cents! For example:

595.23Comes Before

595.30When in doubt, add one 0 (zero) or more if needed to even out the digits after the decimal.

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The number in black is the Dewey Decimal number; add the red zeros to even out the numbers so you can see smallest to largest.

917.2000917.2904917.3000917.3040917.5604917.5704917.5800

Don’t forget below the decimal numbers come the first three

letters of the author’s last name. When two books have the same number, then they go in alphabetical order

by the letters

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Here is an example of the correct shelving for these Dewey Decimal numbers.

Dewey Decimal Number Author’s last name

917.2 Olawsky

917.2904 Hamlyn

917.3 Cobb

917.304 MacNeice

917.5604 Turnage

917.5704 Leifermann

917.58 Edge

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Here is an example of Dewey order with decimal numbers and letters. The zeros have been added in the second column to show you what the number looks like if all the numbers were the same length, and to show you lowest to highest..

ACTUAL CALL #

917.2OLA

917.2904HAM

917.3 COB

917.304MAC

917.5604TUR

917.5704LEI

917.58EDG

Zeros Added

917.2000OLA

917.2904HAM

917.3000COB

917.3040MAC

917.5604TUR

917.5704LEI

917.5800EDG

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Play This Short Decimal Game

http://www.quia.com/pp/5258.html

Did you get them all right the first time?Second time?Are you totally confused?On your worksheet, write down how many you got correct the first time, and any other times you tried.

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BIOGRAPHIES

A biography is a book about a person’s life.

Biographies are filed alphabetically by the person the book is about.

Call numbers for biographies in the Burneson library begin with a 92 on the top line.

92Cleopatra

The second line is the last name of the person the book is about.

Biography Call Number

Locating a Book on the Shelf

Remember this rule for how books are usually shelved!

You start at the left on the top shelf, and move to the right until the shelf ends. Then you go to the next shelf beneath that, and do the same-left to right, top to bottom.

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Congratulations! You made it through the slide show! Hopefully you learned a little about shelving books in a library.

Ask Mrs. Kosik for a

For your last mission, go to the next slide to see what to do.

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Now let’s see what you have learned….

There are two carts, each with a shelf of books (one fiction; one non-fiction) for you to

practice putting the books in order.