How to find a book on the shelves

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How to find a book on the shelves

• Books are arranged on a shelf left to right on
  rows
• Each bay of shelves has several rows on each
• There a several bays in a row which start at the
  front of a room and move to the back

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Move up and down Bays from top left to bottom
right
Read across Rows left to right
At the end of the Bay go around the corner
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Read call numbers from left to right
808
.042
GERM
320.65Gray
320.65Harv
320.661
Read the first number as a whole number
The last may be letters (read alphabetically) or
a shelf number
The number after the point is read as a decimal
ie. .005 before .05 and before .5