Library Skills 2015

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992 - Yearbook of Population.

3. How to look after a puppy - Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from - Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster - Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games - Encyclopedia of Athletics

7. The size of Noah’s Ark - The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power - A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run - Guinness Book of Records

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy - Myths and Legends

Refrencing

How to reference

Author's name - Sandra Markle.

Title Of Book - Predators

Year Published - 2003

Place Published - U.S

Publisher - Scholastic Inc

Referenced - August 20 2015

Dewey Decimals System

Decimals

Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves numerically.

The books are given a decimal number according to their subject.

Try putting these numbers in order.

1.001     2.362 3.500         4.593.9                             

5.610     6.629.2         7.737.5                  8.745.5

9.808.8              10.994

Look through the non-fiction shelves in the library.  What subjects do you find at these numbers.

004 - Data Processing Computers Science.

796.3 - Athletics & outdoor sports and games

500 - Natural Science and Mathematics

821 - English Poetry.

993.1 -  New Zealand History

At what Dewey Decimal number would you find the following subjects:

Myths and Legends - 753

Fashion - 687

Inventions - 608

Birds - 598

Fairy tales - 398