1. Dewey Decimal System
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2. Who is Dewey? It was . One of the greatest librarians of all times.
I bet you're wondering who the brilliant person that came
up with the idea of the
Dewey Decimal System is?
It was One of the greatest librarians of all times.
Melvil Dewey

3. Who put the Dewey in the Dewey Decimal System?
Melvil
established the first school for training librarians.

4. In 1876,
he founded the American Library Association and published the first Library Journal,
which included new library trends and book reviews opened the first library school in 1887 located at Columbia University.
WOW!
Melvil

5. Fiction or Nonfiction? Fiction
stories are created from the author’s imagination.
Fiction books are put on the shelf in alphabetical order by the
author's last name
If your last name was Cleary, you would have your books shelved in the letter “ ” for Cleary. C

6. Fiction or Nonfiction? Nonfiction people, places, and things.
is the opposite of fiction. Books that are nonfiction are about real
people,
places,
and things.
Nonfiction books are shelved by their
subject's category.

7. Call Numbers call number A book is shelved according to it’s
A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters put together to tell you where in the library to find your book.
F = Fiction                     
McD = first 3 initials of the author's last name

8. A call number is located at the bottom of the book on the spine
A call number is located at the bottom of the book on the spine. It helps you to find your books quicker.
Once you've got your call number from the library catalog, you can find your book!

9. Let’s Look at Nonfiction Call Numbers!
always 3
A Dewey call number
has
numbers to the left of the decimal.

10. 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 the subject is.
specific
Number for commercial processing of kidney beans!
McD
Like we care about kidney beans!
I can hardly wait to read the book!

11. When Melvil Dewey devised his system he created main subjects and numbers so that all nonfiction books on the same subject would be together on the shelf. He thought that this way anyone looking for anything would be able to find it easily. 10

12. 100s Philosophy and Psychology
The 100s have all the stuff a person would want to know about himself, like what your dreams or handwriting means, plus things like optical illusions.
Philosophy and Psychology
The are all about you!
100s

13. Religion and Mythology
200s
Religion and Mythology
Books in the explain the world and the heavens.
200s

14. 300s
Social Sciences
The have all kinds of information about how people live and work.
300s
You could find information about firefighters, plus things like holidays and folktales. The 300s are all about the social world.

15. 400s Languages The are about languages. 400s
This includes sign language, dictionaries, and hieroglyphics.

16. 500s
Science and Math
Everything that you would want to know about Science and Math are here.
The dinosaur books, the animal books, the books about plants and planets, and science fair projects are in the !
500s

17. Technology (Working Books)
They are sometimes called working books because it’s where all the information you learned about in the 500s is used to make or do cool stuff.
If you want to learn to grow a garden or fix your bike it’s in the
600s

18. 700s
The Arts
In the , you can find books about sports, games, hobbies, and music!
700s

19. 800s
Literature-
The is for all the plays, poetry, and other great books people have written.
800s

20. Geography, Biography, History
The are where all the books about countries, famous people, and wars are kept.
900s

21. 000s
Finally, Dewey had all his knowledge arranged and thought he was done, but realized that there was a whole category that he missed.
So he put all of the information like newspaper, encyclopedias, and mysteries things like UFO’s and the Bermuda Triangle in the , which is pronounced zero hundreds.
000s

23. 9 more specific categories
Dewey the decided to divide each of these 10 main sections into more specific categories. This made 100 more possible categories. 9

24. 9 even more specific categories
Dewey then divided each of the smaller categories into more specific categories. He even an even more precise number to identify the even smaller categories. 9
This made a 1000 possible categories.

25. The Decimal Point 1000 To create the possibility of more than
categories Dewey added the
Decimal Point

26. Where in Hutton School library can you find the Nonfiction books?

28. Teacher Librarian
Barbara Stern