Reference Books
Parts of Books
Sections of the Library
Dewey Decimal System
Genre
100
General informatio on all branches of knowledge and all subjects.
What is an encyclopedia?
100
A person who wrote a book.
What is an author?
100
Made up stories of imaginary characters, settings, and/or plots.
What is Fiction?
100
The main division that Physics would go under.
What is 500-Pure Sciences?
100
A made up story.
What is Fiction?
200
The meaning of a word, its orgin, pronnunciation, parts of speech, inflections, synonyms, antonyms, and idioms.
What is a dictionary?
200
A list of cgapters with page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
200
A special book of facts and information used for research.
What is reference?
200
The main division that Law would go under.
What is 300-Sociology?
200
Fiction stories that take place in a historical setting.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
A book of maps.
What is an atlas?
300
A date that a book is registered or published.
What is copy right date?
300
An alphabetical list on a library, cards, and computers.
What is a card catalog?
300
The main division that buildings would go under.
What is 600-Technology (applied sciences)
300
A make believe story that begins with "Once upon a time" and ends with " They lived happily ever after."
What is Fairy Tales?
400
It provides accurate, easy-to-find information on acheivments in every field of endeavor.
What is the Guiness Book of World Records?
400
Alist of sources used by the author.
What is bibliography?
400
A collection of life stories written abput several persons.
What is a collective biography?
400
The main division that Chrisitan Theology would go under.
What is 200-Religion?
400
Stories that have problems to be solved,clues, distractions, and an answer to the problem.
What is a Mystery?
500
Contains synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesarous?
500
A page that contains only the title.
What is a half title page?
500
Magazines and newspapers published weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.
What are periodicals?
500
The main division that Journalism would under.
What is 000-General Works?
500
Fiction stories that contian elements that are not real such as talking animals.
What is Fantasy?
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