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PLUG-INs A Student’s Guide to Information Literacy. CALL NUMBERS How to find a book in the library. How do you find a book in the library?. Where is it ? Which shelf is it on?. You look for the CALL NUMBER. What is a CALL NUMBER?. It is a book’s address on the library shelf. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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PLUG-INs A Student’s Guide
to Information Literacy
CALL NUMBERS How to find a book in the library
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Where is it ? Which shelf
is it on?
You look for the CALL NUMBER.
How do you find a book
in the library?
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What is a CALL
NUMBER?
It is a book’s address on the library shelf.
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It is on a small white sticker.
Look on the thin side (or spine) of
a book to see the CALL NUMBER.
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Letters come first.
At HCT, a call number has
both letters and numbers.
Of course, the letters are in alphabetical
order.
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Do you remember
the Alphabet Song ?
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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For example, “D” is for
books about history.
Other books on the same
subject will be nearby.
The letter in a call number
is like a neighborhood.
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Books with “QA” come
before books with “QB” and
so on.
For example, “QA” are
the letters for books about computers.
Sometimes, there are 2 letters.
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This is not difficult. The numbers are
in normal order.
But, what happens next
is a little confusing.
After the letters, there
are some numbers.
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Do you remember
decimals from your math
class?
Look at the 3rd line of this call number.
You see a dot. This is a decimal.
QA 76.H222006
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Did you guess
0.2116 ?
So, on the library shelf, 0.2116 comes before
0.22
In decimals, which number
is smaller 0.22 or
0.2116 ?
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The letter with the decimal
number usually is the first letter of the author’s last
name.
Sometimes, there is another line of decimal numbers.
QA 76.H222006
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The last number is the year the book
was published. QA 76.H222006
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Sometimes a call number has the
word “Reference” under the year.
This means that the book is in a special section called the Reference Section.
Reference books must be used
in the library only. They cannot be
checked out.
QA 76.H222006Reference
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It tells you about the
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME.
It also tells you WHAT the books is
about.
To conclude, a call number tells you WHERE a book is in the
library.
And, it tells you WHEN the book was published.
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But, what about Fiction books ?
What about Graded Readers ?
WOW ! That’s a lot of information in one number.
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Fiction and Graded
Readers do not have full call
numbers.
Books in the Fiction Section are in alphabetical order by
the author’s last name.
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If the author is Brad Pitt, the book will be in the P section.
For example, if the author is Robert Adams,
the book will be in the A section.
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Yellow is Elementary
or beginning.Blue is
Intermediate and orange is
Advanced.
Graded Readers are shelved by
level.
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A Big Secret is filed under B.
For example, The Long Road
is filed by L
Graded Readers are then filed by the first letter of
the title after “the” or “a.”
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Only one more thing about
finding books in the library.
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This means that all A books, all B books,
all C books and all D books through DH will be on this
set of shelves.
On the side of a library shelf, you
will see some letters, for example
A- DH.
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Ask your friendly librarian if you
have any questions.
Thank you for listening.
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HAPPY READING
!