The Dewey Decimal System

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The Dewey Decimal System

• By Heather

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Left-to-right, Top-to-bottom

• Now, if you're having trouble finding your book
  on the shelf,remember this rule forhow the
  books are shelved left-to-right,
  top-to-bottomThat means you start at the left on
  the top shelfand move to the rightuntil the
  shelf ends.

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Call Numbers

• To the right of the decimal, there is no limit on
  number.The more numbers you add to the right of
  the decimal,the more specific the subject
  is.For example, the Dewey number for
  thecommercial processing of kidney beans
  is664.805652 !! 

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Fiction

• Fiction - Books that are made up by  the author,
  or are not true,are fiction.
  

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Non-fiction

• Nonfiction - is the opposite of fiction. Books
  that are nonfiction, or true,are about real
  things, people,events, and places.
  

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Where do call numbers come from?

• The call numbers help the library user to find
  the books in the library.  The call numbers come
  from the Dewey Decimal System.

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Who put theDeweyin the Dewey Decimal System?

• Melvil Dewey lived an extraordinary life! He
  was born in Adams Center, New York, on December
  10, 1851,and died onDecember 26, 1931.  He was
  alibrarianwho invented adecimal classification
  systemfor library bookscalled theDewey Decimal
  System.

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What are call numbers?

• Call numbers are the small, little numbers that
  tell you where the books go.

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• I hope you learned about the Dewey Decimal
  System. There is going to be a oral test
  afterwards!