General Dewey
Librarian Melvil Dewey
Where would you find a book about government?
300 Social Science
How many categories are in the Dewey Decimal System?
10
What subjects can be found in the 300's?
Government, politics, law, culture, community, society
What are books come from the imagination of an author?
What is the Dewey Decimal Classification System?
A way to organize books
Where would find a book about encyclopedias?
100 General Encyclopedias
What do the three letters under the number on the spine of a nonfiction book stand for?
Author's Last name
What subject(s) can be found in the 400's?
Language
What is a a book that is about a real things, people, events, and places called?
Nonfiction
In what section of the library do we find the Dewey Decimal System?
Nonfiction
Where can a book about Ethics be found?
100 Philosophy and Psychology
What is Mr. Dewey's first name?
Melvil
What subject(s) can be found in the 200's?
Religion and Mythology
How are fiction books shelved?
Alphabetically by author's last name.
What numbers are used to organize books in the Dewey Decimal System?
000-999
A book about Languages would be found where?
400 Languages
When Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System he included all books. What books do we put in a different section of the library today?
Fiction
How are nonfiction books shelved?
By subject.
Where is the call number located on the book?
On the spine.
I want to read the Quran, where would I look for this book?
200 Religion
How were books arranged in libraries before the Dewey Decimal System?
color, size, how tall they were, and what color they were
What subject(s) can be found in the 100?
Philosophy and Psychology?
Are all books in the Dewey Decimal System non fiction?
No