Library

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Chapter 3

• Library
• Maggie
• Irene
• Howard
• Rachelle

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Contents

• 3a--- Layout of the library
• 3b--- Organization of the library

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The background of Library

• Whats the difference of library between the past
  and now to catalog and organize their collections?

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In the past

• Library used Card catalogs which is made up of
  index cards to describe the librarys collection.

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Card catalogs
index cards
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Today

• Most libraries use computers to catalog and
  organize their collections

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Databases vs. Index
Some databases cover many years information Index only include recent information, generally over ten years.
Full-text databases provide entire articles that can be printed out Index provide only abstractsummaries of articles
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• The most useful databases offer the full
• text of an article or book.
• Different libraries subscribe to different
• databases, so your first order of business
• as a researcher is to find out which
• databases are available in your school
• library

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• Most college and university libraries have
• networked their database so that they can
  accessed from students dorms or homes

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Online full-text databases

• 1.HighWire Press
• 2. Merlot Multimedia Educational
• Research for Learning and
• Online Teaching
• 3. Project Gutenberg Electronic Public
• Library.

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It contains 1066 journals and about four
million full text articles from over 130
scholarly publishers.
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Find online teaching and learning
materials.
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Stacks

• The stacks are the shelves on which books and
  periodicals are stored in the library.
• Open stacks- you can roam the shelves and handle
  the books.
• Closed stacks- you must obtain books from a clerk
  by listing the title of each book, authors.

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Reference room or shelf

• You can get information by searching
  Encyclopedias, indexes, gazetteers in a room or
  on the reference shelf.
• They are available for use only in the library.
• They cannot be checked out.

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Main desk

• It means information center or checkout counter
  for books.
• Librarians and clerks are trained to help a
  researcher find material or difficult sources.
• The reference librarian can be the researchers
  best resource.

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Reserve desk

• Reserve books are kept at the reserve desk.
• Books on reserve are available for use only in
  the library and only for a limited time.
• When the demand for a book exceeds the supply,
  the book is placed in the reserve collection.

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Audiovisual room

• Cassettes, tapes, music CDs, DVDs, picture
  slides, filmstrips are stored in an audiovisual
  room.
• Students can listen to tapes or watch a film.
• Some libraries replete with extensive new
  audiovisual hardware and call media centers
  instead of libraries.

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Microform room

• Microfilm- material stored on filmstrips(rolls)
• Microfiche- material photographically mounted on
  frames(film cards)
• Periodical material is stored economically in
  microscopic form and read with magnifying
  equipment.

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Microfilm
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Microfiche
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Newspaper racks

• Typical newspapers found in these racks Taipei
  Times, China Post, Taiwan news, and so on.
• A useful Internet source for online newspapers is
  the Internet Public Library.

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Copy room

• Photocopy machines are available in most
  libraries.
• A room that doing the product of copying, the
  duplication of information or an artifact

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Computer room

• Computer equipment is available in most
  libraries, either free or at a reasonable rental
  rate.
• Software has been installed for word processing
  and Internet access.

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Carrels

• Carrels are small enclosed desks equipped with
  bookshelves and designed to provide students with
  a quiet, insulated nook for reading or
  researching.
• Some libraries impose fines on students caught
  misusing this area.

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3b Organization of the library

• Nowadays, there are two major classification
  systems now used by libraries in the world.

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The two organization of the library

• The Dewey Decimal System
• The Library Of Congress Classification System.

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The Dewey Decimal System

• In 1873, Melvil Dewey devised this organization
  system and put to use in the library of Amherst.
• This system divides all knowledge into ten
  general categories except fiction and biography.

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The Dewey Decimal System
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By alphabet
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classification
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The method of Dewey Decimal System
800-809 General Works
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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The method of Dewey Decimal System
820 English Literature
821 Poetry
822 Drama
823 Fiction
824 Essays
825 Speeches
826 Letters
827 Satire and Humor
828 Miscellany
829 Minor and related literature
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NTU Library Databases
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3b-2The Cutter/Sanborn Author Marks
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The Cutter/Sanborn Author Marks
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The Library of Congress Classification System
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Founded in 1800

• The Library of congress System at first Simply
  shelved its books by size. However, the nations
  collection of books had increased fabulously day
  after day.
• Therefore, in 1904, the System itself has grown
  immensely in popularity and now it has been
  widely used in the globe.

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The use of the system

• It has divided the main branches of knowledge
  with 21 letters of the alphabet.
• A General Works
• B Law
• C Education
• M Music
• ..
• Z
• Numerous minute subdivision are possible.

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For example

• Music (designated M) is subdivided into
  other categories, among them the following
• M Music
• MA Latin Music
• MB Blues Music
• MC Country Music
• MD Metal Music
• The classification proceeds from the general to
  the specific, with longer numbers assigned to
  more-specialized books. Moreover, it uses an
  author number to differentiate books shelved
  within a specific category.

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LCSH

• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is
  the titled for people track down the books from
  the Library. These books use subject heading to
  group materials on the same or a similar topic
  under one term.

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Which it fits Our Country

• The system widely used in our country can be
  divided into the following method
• 1) Books name (journal) by key words
• 2) Books name (journal) by alphabet
• 3) By Authors name
• 4) By Topic/Key word
• 5) By Topic alphabet
• 6) By Library's Key word
• 7) By publisher's Key word
• 8) classify by directory(Chinese)
• 9) classify by directory(English)
• 10) By ISBN/ISSN
• 11) By Dynix bibliographic
• 12) By Library-code

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Can be subdivided

• 1) Applied Science Technology Full Text
• 2) Art Full Text
• 3) Education Full Text
• 4) General Science Full Text
• 5) Humanities Full Text
• 6) Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
• 7) Library Literature Information Science
• full text.
• 8) Readers' Guide Full Text
• 9) Social Sciences Full Text

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Classification of periodicals

• It has classified differently from books. Current
  issues usually are shelved alphabetically by
  title and free to the public.In addition, the
  way to look up the online periodicals through
  Librarys online service are usually the same way
  with which checking books in the library.

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However, there is a little different as the
following

• 1) Applied Science Technology Full Text
• 2) Art Full Text
• 3) Education Full Text
• 4) General Science Full Text
• 5) Humanities Full Text
• 6) Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
• 7) Library Literature Information Science
• full text
• 8) Readers' Guide Full Text
• 9) Social Sciences Full Text

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• No matter it has bound in book form or reproduced
  on microfilm, they usually are stored in special
  section where public may or may not to look up.

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Classification of nonbooks

• nonbooksmaterials includes-films, recordings,
  sheet music, slides, and so on.
• There are no hard-and-fast rule exist for
  classifying this kind of material. Therefore,
  when you try to find these materials, you will
  have to ask the librarian for help.

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The end

• Thank you !