The Dewey Decimal System

By Heather

Left-to-right, Top-to-bottom
Now, if you're having trouble finding your book on the shelf, remember this rule for how the books are shelved: left-to-right, top-tobottom That means you start at the left on the top shelf and move to the right until the shelf ends.

Call Numbers
To the right of the decimal, there is no limit on number. The more numbers you add to the right of the decimal, the more specific the subject is.
For example, the Dewey number for the commercial processing of kidney beans is 664.805652 !!

001.9

Fiction
Fiction - Books that are made up by the author, or are not true, are fiction.

Non-fiction
Nonfiction - is the opposite of fiction. Books that are nonfiction, or true, are about real things, people, events, and places.

Where do call numbers come from?

The call numbers help the library user to find the books in the library. The call numbers come from the Dewey Decimal System.

Who put the Dewey in the Dewey Decimal System?

Melvil Dewey lived an extraordinary life! He was born in Adams Center, New York, on December 10, 1851, and died on December 26, 1931. He was a librarian who invented a decimal classification system for library books called the Dewey Decimal System.

What are call numbers?

Call numbers are the small, little numbers that tell you where the books go.

I hope you learned about the Dewey Decimal System. There is going to be a oral test afterwards!