1. Welcome to
Payson Jr. High
Library Media Center

2. General Information Open at 7:35 until 3:00 Including lunch time
Courteous to others maintain low voices
Take care of materials borrowed
Library is not a hallway…
PLEASE don’t use it between class as a hall

3. Book Check Out Activity card required Bring book to circulation desk
Books checked out for two weeks
Return books in book drops at each
door or circulation desk

4. Location of books on shelves
Patron Access Terminals
(Automated card catalog)
Search by :
Title
Author
Subject
Location of books on shelves
in the library

5. Computer Stations For Educational Purpose ONLY
Use with teacher supervision

6. Indexes (Readers’ Guide)
Reference Area
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Atlases
Almanacs
Indexes (Readers’ Guide)
Research Materials
Specialty Collections

7. Fiction Area Historical fiction Mystery (Horror, Adventure, Suspense)
Science Fiction
Coming of Age
Love & Romance
Westerns
Fantasy

8. Non – Fiction Area (DEWEY
000 – 099 Generalities
100 – 199 Philosophy & Psychology
200 – 299 Religion & Mythology
300 – 399 Social Issues & Folklore
400 – 499 Language
500 – 599 Pure Sciences
Applied Sciences
700 – 799 Arts & Recreation
800 – 899 Literature
900 – 999 History and Geography
920 Collective Biography
921 Individual biography

9. Periodicals
Magazines
Newspapers
Journals