The Library

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The Library
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Layout of the library

• .What s the difference between past and now?
• Past Card catalogs
• Now Computer
• Photo copy machine
• Connection Internet

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The computer

• .Computers are linked to
• 1. useful databases (such as PACs and
• OPACs)
• PACs ---Public access catalogs
• OPACs ---online public-access catalogs
• 2. more college libraries

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Online full-text databases

• .What is databases?
• 1.Full text of an article or book
• 2. Abstract
• .How to find databases?
• 1. In the libraries
• 2. On the Internet (free)

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Microform indexes
Microfiche
.A system that stored magazines and newspaper
on a small single sheet of film
Microfilm
.A system that stored magazines and newspaper
on a roll of film
Online sources are gradually replacing it.
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Stacks

• Two kinds of stacks
• 1.Open stacks
• 2.Closed stacks (Tittle of each books,
• its author, its call number)

Reference room or shelf

• Such as Encyclopedia ,indexes, gazetteer

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• Main desk
• (information desk)
• Reserve desk
• Books are kept at the reserve desk.
• (Books are available for use only in the library,
  and only for a limited time.)

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Audiovisual room

• Media centers, Learning centers (ISU)
• Tapes, music CDs, DVDs, picture slides.

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Newspaper racks

• 1. Newspaper racks (in library)
• 2.Online newspapers
• (www.ipl.org/reading /news)

Other guidelines CNN,CQ CSPAN, U.S news
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• Computer room
• Carrels
• .Carrels are small, equipped with
• desks and bookshelves.

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Organization of the library collections
1.The Deway Decimal System ? This system
divides all knowledge in 10
categories. 2.The Library of Congress
Classification System ? This system has 20
branches, which marked by 21 letters.


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?The Deway Decimal System Ten general
categories

• 000-099 General Work
• 100-199 Philosophy
• 200-299 Religion
• 300-399 Social Sciences
• 400-499 Language
• 500-599 Pure Science
• 600-699 Technology (Applied Sciences)
• 700-799 The Arts
• 800-899 Literature
• 900-999 History

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Each of these ten general categories is
subdivided into ten smaller division.

• Literature
• 800-809 General Work (about Literature)
• 810-819 American Literature
• 820-829 English Literature
• 830-839 German Literature
• 840-849 French Literature
• 850-859 Italian Literature
• 860-869 Spanish Literature
• 870-879 Latin Literature
• 880-889 Greek and Classical Literature
• 890-899 Literature of Other language

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Ex The subcategory English Literature is
divided into ten even-narrow group

• 820 English Literature (general)
• 821 Poetry
• 822 Drama
• 823 Fiction
• 824 Essays
• 825 Speeches
• 826 Letters
• 827 Satire and Humor
• 828 Miscellany
• 829 Minor Related Literature

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More specific

• An endless number of more-specific headings are
  created easily through and addition of decimal
  place.
• For example
• 822.3 Elizabethan
• 822.33 the works of Shakespeare

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Fiction and biography

• Fiction It is a alphabetized by author
• mark with the letter F
• For example
• F-Pas (a novel by Boris Pasternak)
• Biography it is a alphabetized by subject
• mark with the letter B
• B-C56 (one of the several
  biographies of Sir Winstion Churchill)

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?The Cutter-Sanborn Author Mark

• To find any title, we should.
• 1. First locate Deway decimal category on the
  shelf
• 2. Identify an individual book by its author
  mark
• ?Distinguish between books filed under an
  identical Dewey decimal number.

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The Cutter-Sanborn Author Mark

• Ex The book Double Taxation by Charles
• Edward Garland. ? G233d
• 1. Charles ? the number 233
• 2. surname G
• 3. first important word in the tittle d
• Garf 231 Garn 234
• Gari 232 Garnet 235
• Garl 233 Garni 236

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The Library of Congress Classification System

• Found in 1800
• Shelved its books by size
• Represent the main branches of knowledge with 21
  letters of alphabet

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General Categories

• A General Works
• B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
• C Auxiliary Sciences of History
• D History General and Old World
• E-F History of America
• G Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
• H Social Sciences
• J Political Science
• K Law
• L Education

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• General Categories
• M Music
• N Fine Arts
• P Language
• Q Science
• R Medicine
• S Agriculture
• T Technology
• U Military Science
• V Laval Science
• Z Bibliography, Library Science,
• Information Resources

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These general categories are narrowed by the
addition of letters

• Past size of the books
• Now the main branches of knowledge with 21
  letters of the alphabet.
• They are divided into narrower group by letters
  and Arabic numbers(up to 9999).

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These general categories are narrowed by the
addition of letters

• P philology and Linguistics General
• PA Greek and Latin Philology and Literature
• PB Celtic Languages and Literature
• PC Romance Languages (Italian, French,
• Spanish, Portuguese )
• PD Germanic (Teutonic) Languages

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• For example
• PN 1993.5 U65
• 1.Find the subject category.
• P-general category, Language and
• Literature
• PN-Literature History and Collections
• 2.Track down

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Classification of periodicals

• Current issues usually are shelved alphabetically
  by title and are accessible to the public

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Classification of nonbooks

• Nonbook materialsfilms, microfilms, recordings,
  news clippings, sheet music, productions of
  masterpieces ,transparencies,
• slides, programmed books, and other
  audiovisual material.
• No hard-and-fast rule exists for classifying.

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