Library Sections
References
Dewey Decimals
Library History
Library Resources
100
This library section contains chapter book made-up stories for entertainment.
What is the fiction section?
100
Use this book to find the definition of a word.
What is a dictionary?
100
This number series is assigned to geography, biography, and history books.
What is the 900's?
100
This is what school libraries are called today.
What is the information center or media center?
100

One way to know if a website source is trustworthy?

What is the name of the author, no spelling errors, publishing date, trustworthy URL, based on facts.

200
This library section contains books about real-world subjects, such as government, languages, science, technology, geography, and history.
What is the nonfiction section?
200
Use this book to find a synonym for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This number series includes math and science books.
What is the 500's?
200
This early American inventor and statesman (whose portrait is on the $100 bill) helped start a lending library in colonial Philadelphia in 1731.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
200

This is how to fix your robot in the library

What is debug?

300

This is the section where you would find books for research that are not checked out of the library, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases, and almanacs.

What is the reference section?

300
Use this book to find a map.
What is an atlas?
300
This series includes art, music, sports, and games.
What is the 700's?
300
He invented a library classication system for nonfiction books, consisting of ten basic number series.
Who was Melvil Dewey?
300

This is the section of our library that changes with the latest, more relevant books.

What is BookTok

400

Where you return and check out books

What is the check-out desk or circulation desk.

400
This set of books, in many volumes, has information about any topic.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
Technology (applied science) books are found in this series, including farming, medicine, cars and airplanes.
What is the 600's?
400
This is the nation's largest library, located in Washington DC.
What is the Library of Congress?
400
This reference book, published yearly, has information on countries of the world, American states and major cities, and much else.
What is the almanac?
500

To find a book, your search starts here.

What is the computer catalog.

500
Use this book to find out what a famous person said or wrote about a topic.
What is a dictionary of quotations?
500
This series includes books on religion.
What is the 200's?
500
In the ancient world, a famous library, called the Great Library, was located in the port city of Alexandria, in this country.
What is Egypt?
500

This stands for STEAM, the focus of our Maker Space?

What is Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

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