Welcome to Waid Academy Library My name is Mrs. Bogle and I am the School Librarian

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Welcome to Waid Academy LibraryMy name is Mrs.
Bogleand I am the School Librarian
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• The library is open everyday from 8.30am until
  4.30pm.
• At break lunch time the library is restricted
  for use by the Learning Support Department

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• The Library has lots of books!
• They are arranged in a special way, to make it
  easier for you to find a particular book that you
  maybe looking for.
• First of all, they are divided into
• two main sections
• Fiction Non-Fiction

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Fiction

• These are made up stories about imaginary people
  and events.
• These stories are not true.
• For example Harry Potters adventures

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How Fiction books are arranged

• Fiction books are arranged in alphabetical order
  using the Authors SURNAME.
• This allows all the books by the same author to
  be kept together on the shelf

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Know your Alphabet?

• For example Jacqueline Wilson books will be
  shelved under W because her surname is Wilson and
  begins with the letter W.
• How would you arrange the following authors on
  the shelf
• Robert Westall, James Watson, Chris Wooding
  Jacqueline Wilson?

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Solution !Did you get it right?

1. Watson, James
2. Westall, Robert
3. Wilson, Jacqueline
4. Wooding, Chris

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Non- Fiction

• These are information books
• They contain information about all kind of
  subjects, for example
• events that have happened
• how to do things
• how things work

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How Non-fiction books are arranged

• Non-fiction books are arranged by SUBJECT
• This makes it easier for you to find books for
  any topic that you are studying - for example
  all books on cars are found together.

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Dewey Decimal Classification System

• Each non-fiction book is given a code-number
  the books are arranged on the shelf in NUMERICAL
  order
• All books on the same subject are given the same
  number
• This arrangement is known as the Dewey Decimal
  Classification System named after Melvil Dewey
  who devised the system

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Information is divided into 10 main sections

• 000 099 General Knowledge Computing
  
• 100 199 Philosophy Moral Issues
• 200 299 Religion
• 300 399 Community Social Sciences
• 400 499 Languages
• 500 599 Sciences
• 600 699 Technology
• 700 799 Art, Music Sport
• 800 899 Literature
• 900 999 History Geography

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Dont worry about all these numbers!

• Waid Library is quite a small library,
• and all the shelves are labelled
• to help you find
• the book you want!

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Here is an example

• The Dewey number for Sport is 796 so all books
  on sport are found together on the shelf with
  this code number on their cover
• As there are lots of different Sports, the number
  changes slightly for each one
• Basketball 796.323
• Rugby 796.333
• Tennis 796.342
• Golf 796.352

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Other Resources

• The Library is not just a place to borrow books
  you will also be able to use the other
  information resources, such as
• The Internet
• Reference Library
• Newspapers
• Audio books
• Careers Information

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• All pupils are members of the library everyone
  is allowed to borrow a book.
• Normally, a book will be stamped with a date,
  allowing the reader to keep it for 2 weeks but
  if you need more time to read it, it can be
  stamped for another 2 weeks
• If you cant find the information
• that you need, please ask
• the Librarian to help