How To Find Your Way Around

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The Library is divided into:

Fiction Books:

Made up stories about imaginary people or events. These are shelved near the entrance to the Library on the left hand side. Fiction books are arranged in Alphabetical order using the author's surname.

Non-Fiction Books:

True fact or information books. These are kept on shelves on either side of the computer tables. They are arranged under subject areas such as history, sport and cookery. They each have a subject or Dewey number between 001 and 999 on the spine of the book.

How to find a book

Dewey Explained

Dewey Decimal Classification is the system most frequently used in libraries, although other systems exist, particularly in academic or specialist libraries.

Invented by Melvil Dewey, an American librarian who lived from 1851 to 1931, the system numbers books by their subject matter in the following way.

000 Generalia including computers
100 Philosophy and Psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Science
600 Technology
700 The Arts
800 Literature
900 History and Geography

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Page updated Tuesday, May 14, 2013