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A Dewey Decimal Presentation
By Sarah Dupuis
MEDT 6463
Fall 2009
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This presentation is appropriate for upper elementary, grades 3-5.
The purpose of this presentation is to show students and faculty alike how the Dewey classification system works. Also, coverage of who Melvil Dewey was and how he started his classification system is included. Students will learn how to look for and find materials appropriate to their research.
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Melvil Dewey, born in 1851, was reared in upstate New York. An avid simplified speller, Mr. Dewey shortened his own name from Melville to Melvil, dropped his middle names and even shortened his last name for a time to Dui. Working as a student assistant in a college library, Mr. Dewey began his classification system at the age of 21.
Although well known as a librarian and the founder of the American Library Association (ALA), it is for the Dewey Decimal Classification system that Melvil Dewey is best known. His library classification systems is used in most all libraries today.
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How do I know where to look?
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(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)
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Dewey can help you find most anything!
(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)
000 Computer Science, information & general works
Librarian of Basra review
020WIN
032WOR
100 Philosophy and Psychology
152.4ALI
Feelings
100PHI
200 Religion
Faith like Mine Review
200
BUL
200GLO
(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)
300 Social Sciences
371 RAD
398.2SCH
Eyewitness Books Battle
355HOL
400 Language
Webster's Basic English Dictionary Review Grade 3 English/Language Arts Standard
423WEB
468WIL
428
ELL
500 Science
Eyewitness Books Astronomy Review
GPS Standard Grade 2
520LIP
510
TAN
600 Technology (Applied sciences)
630HAL
The Way Things Work Review
600MAC
636REA
700 Arts and recreation
781ARD
Cathedral Review
726
MAC
793GRY
800 Literature
808.8RAI
Please Bury me in the Library Review
Language Arts Standards, Grade 3
811LEW
821.008POE
900 History and geography
912
STE
920RUS
978MUR
973ENG
910.3KNO
Scholastic Atlas of the World Review
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How does it all fit together?
(Microsoft Office Online, 2007)
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With the Dewey Decimal System, you need only search for the name or call number of a book to find where its location on your library shelf.
Pets636.7
Ellis Island
325
Mammals599
Astronomy520
Plants581
Geology551
Explorers970
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Microsoft Office, 2003
Simply read the spine label to find your book.
Now, can you find these books?
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And for a super challenge…
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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky
Enjoy the hunt and always keep learning!
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References
(2007). [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2007/07/getting-dewey-eyed/
All other pictures, unless noted, are from Destiny 2009.