What Do You Mean? Library Media Center

Here it is a room where books are kept a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing An area which contains not only books and printed information, but other media (i.e. videos, audio recordings) as well.

What’s in the Media Center ? Books Maps Audio Tapes CD’s Cassettes Video Tapes DVD’s Audio Equipment Computers( internal Assess)

How to Find What you want… The way to was invented by Melvil Dewey

. Who Did It Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851– December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, and the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system of library classification.December December librarianeducator inventorDewey Decimal Classificationlibrary classification

The Dewey Decimal System is divided into ten categories, or parts

The Dewey Decimal System (call numbers) ( General Works ) Encyclopedias, Almanacs ( Philosophy ) (Religion) ( Social Science ) (Language) Science Math Technolgy The Arts Literature History

Fiction Fiction Books are not true-- these are stories that someone has made up. We can find fiction books tucked away in their on private section within the Media Center.

Fiction Books Fiction books DO have Dewey Call numbers—books by American authors all have the Dewey number 810—but there are so many, we leave that off and they are shelved with call numbers Fic and the first three letters of the author’s name.

Non-Fiction Non-fiction Books are true--these are real stories or informational books. We can find non-fiction books in the Dewey section of our library. Not EVERY book in the Dewey section is non-fiction. Fairy tales are fiction.

THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM Using the sections in the media center suggested by the teacher, name the 10 groups that are used to classify non-fiction books in a library _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ A non-fiction book that I have found is entitled ______________________. It would be classified with the call number

So….if you know the Dewey Decimal System you can…. Find books to help you with research Find books about things you think are fun! Find books for your hobbies And even get better grades…