Grades 3-6

1. How are books put
on shelves?
How are they
grouped?
How do you find
books that you want?

2. Libraries in the Olden
Days
• Books were
• Expensive books
placed on the
were placed near
shelf by their age. a door – in case
• Books were
placed in
buckets
of fire!!

4. Melville Dewey

6. Melville Dewey
•
Born in 1851
•
Like spelling, math and
organizing things.
•
Invented a new way to
organize libraries.
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Grouped books by 100s.

7. Dewey Decimal System
Puts similar things together

8. Dewey System – 0-99
• Encyclopedias
• Computers
• Strange things – Big
Foot, aliens, Loch
Ness monster

9. Dewey System – 100-199
• Psychology - Books
about feelings
• Philosophy – Books
about thinking

10. Dewey System – 200-299
• Beliefs
• Religions
• Mythologies

11. Dewey System – 300-399
• Communities - Learning
to get along together
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•
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Politics
Government
Education
Law
Folk lore and fairy tales

12. Dewey System – 400-499
• Languages
• How do we talk with
each other?

13. Dewey System – 500-599
• Natural Science
• Math
• Nature and the
world around
us
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The universe
The earth
Animals
Birds
Reptiles
Fish

14. Dewey System – 600-699
• Science
• Technology
• Things that people
invent, engineer,
grow, manufacture,
process and build

15. Dewey System – 700-799
• Sports
• Activities and
Hobbies
• How people use
their free time
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Art
Craft
Dance
Music

16. Dewey System – 800-899
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Poetry
Jokes
Riddles
Plays

17. Dewey System – 900-999
• Geography
• History
• Biographies – books
about people

18. Book Labels /Call Numbers
• Dewey Decimal number
• First 3 letters of the author’s
last name
595.7
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