1. How Well Do YOU Know Your Media Center?

2. Come On In!

3. Dewey Decimal System Did You Know? Dewey Decimal system has a number for ALL books. Just because it’s in the Dewey Decimal system doesn’t mean it’s non-fiction Some examples of books that are not non- fiction are: Folk & Fairy Tales 398 & 398.2, Riddles, Poetry 811, and Plays 812 Fiction books could actually be put in the 813s!

4. What does RC stand for? Reading Counts!

5. What does it mean when a book is a Reading Counts book? It has a label at the bottom and sometimes a green dot at the top.

6. All our Reading Counts books are on this side of the Media Center.

8. Young Hoosier Books They’re Reading Counts, too!

9. Reading Counts Fiction

11. Reading Counts Non-Fiction They’re grouped by numbers like RC 398.3 Sch.

12. Reading Counts Non-Fiction

13. Non-Fiction Shelving Non-fiction books are first shelved by their number and then by the letters following their numbers. For example: 900 Alb 901 Alb 901.05 Alb 901.5 Alb

14. Are these in correct order?

15. Reading Counts Biographies

17. These books are shelved with a B (for Biography) and the first 3 Letters of the person’s name. For example, a biography about George Washington would be RC B Was

18. Correct Order for RC Biographies B Ada B Aik B Ale

19. Reading Counts Story Collection

20. Non-Fiction Books These books are shelved by numbers and letters like 546.3 Nef

21. Book Drop Off

22. Do you know about inter-library loan? 1.You can order a book from another school. 2.It will arrive in about 2-3 days. 3.You have two weeks to read and return the book. 4.There is no charge. 5.We can order from any school in our school corporation.