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Locating Library Books with Call Numbers

Locating Library Books with Call Numbers. Created by Erin Ammon December 2, 2009. Search your favorite subject in the catalogue. Look at the results list for a minute. What information is there? Can you find the call numbers? Library Search. Where are the call numbers?.

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Locating Library Books with Call Numbers

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  1. Locating Library Books with Call Numbers Created by Erin Ammon December 2, 2009

  2. Search your favorite subject in the catalogue. • Look at the results list for a minute. • What information is there? • Can you find the call numbers? • Library Search

  3. Where are the call numbers? Here is a call number. Hmm…. Can you find more call numbers?

  4. What does the number tell me? • 696.10 JAM The three letters found at the end of the call number are the first three letters of the author’s last name. The author of this book is Robert James.

  5. What is the call number of the book written by Sabine Lohf? Check your answer.

  6. ANSWER Christmas Crafts: A Christmas craft book for children four years and up.

  7. What does the number at the beginning tell me? • 394.26 DAL The number tells you where to find the book in the nonfiction section. The numbers go in order like counting! Books about the same subject are kept together in groups.

  8. What is difference between fiction and nonfiction? • Nonfiction : Facts and true information • A book on tigers and their habitats • Fiction: A story that is not real. • The story of the Gingerbread Man • Fiction vs. Nonfiction Practice

  9. How do I know if a book is fiction or nonfiction by the call number? • Fiction books have call numbers that start with the letters FIC • FIC KLE • These books are organized in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

  10. What are the call numbers of two fiction books? Check your answer.

  11. ANSWER FIC OSB FIC PAU FIC FRI

  12. Are there more sections besides fiction and nonfiction? Biographies are in another section. A biography is a book about a real person’s life.

  13. What does a call number for a biography look like? • Biographies start with the letters BIO. • BIO FRA • BIO LIN • Biographies end with the first three letters of the last name of the real person found in the book. • FRA for Benjamin Franklin • LIN is for _____?

  14. ANSWER Lincoln

  15. Are there any other sections? The other section that we are going to talk about is the picture books. These are books with a picture on most pages and only a few words. Some examples are Where the Wild Things Are and books by Dr. Seuss.

  16. What does a call number for a picture book look like? • Picture Books start with the letter E for Easy-to-read. • E SEU • E BIR • Picture books are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

  17. What is the call number for two picture books? Check your answer.

  18. ANSWER E COL E GRO E SCI

  19. Examples and Summary • Nonfiction • 796.8 QUE • Fiction • FIC CON • Biography • BIO POC • Picture Books • E POL • Mind Map Summary

  20. Go back and search your favorite subject in the catalogue. • Write down the call numbers and titles of two books that you want to find? • Each book must be from a different section. • Take the two books back to your seat. • Library Search

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