Dewey Decimal SystemWho is Dewey?It was.One of the greatest librarians of all times.I bet you're wondering who the brilliant person that came up with the idea of the Dewey Decimal System is? Who put the Deweyin theDewey Decimal System?established the first school for training librarians.In 1876, he founded the American Lirary Association and pulished the first Lirary !ournal, which included new lirary trends and oo" re#iews$ opened the first lirary school in 1887 located at %olumia &ni#ersity$Fiction or Nonfiction? stories are createdfrom the authors imagination.'iction oo"s are put on the shelf in alphaetical order ythe$If your last name was Cleary you would ha!e your boo"s shel!ed in the letter # $ for Cleary.Fiction or Nonfiction? is the opposite of fiction.%oo"s that are nonfiction are about realpeople places, and things.Nonfiction boo"s are shel!ed by their Call Numbers& boo" is shel!ed according to its & call number is a group of numbers and/or letters put together to tell youwhere in the library to find your boo.! ' !iction"cD ' first ( initials of theauthor's last name& call number is located at the bottom of the boo" on the spine.It helps you to find your boo"s )uic"er.*nce you'!e got your call numberfrom the library catalog you can find your boo"+,ets ,oo" at Nonfiction Call Numbers+& Dewey call number

has numbers to the left of the decimal.-o the right of the decimal there is no limit on number.-he more numbers you add to the right of the decimalthe morethe sub.ect is.//0.123/34Number for commercial processing of idney beans#5cD,i"e we care about "idney beans+I can hardly wait to read the boo"+6hen 5el!il Dewey de!ised his system he created main sub.ects and numbers so that all nonfiction boo"s on the same sub.ect would be together on the shelf.7e thought that this way anyone loo"ing for anything would be able to find it easily.The 100s have all the stuf a The 100s have all the stuf a person would want to know person would want to know about himself, like what your about himself, like what your dreams or handwriting means, dreams or handwriting means, plus things like optical illusions.plus things like optical illusions.

-he are all about you+$hilosophy and $sychology%eligion and "ythology&oos in the e'plain the world and the hea(ens.)ocial )ciences*heha(e all inds of information about how people li(e and wor.+ou could find information about firefighters, plus things lie holidays and foltales.*he ,--s are all about the social world..anguages*heare about languages.*his includes sign language, dictionaries, and hieroglyphics.)cience and "ath/(erything that you would want to now about )cience and "ath are here.*he dinosaur boos, the animal boos, the boos about plants and planets, and science fair pro0ects are in the # *echnology 1Woring &oos2*hey are sometimes called woring boos because it3s where all the information you learned about in the 4--s is used to mae or do cool stuff.If you want to learn to grow a garden or fi' your bie it3s in the.*he 5rtsIn the, you can find boos about sports, games, hobbies, and music#.iterature6*heis for all the plays, poetry, and other great boos people ha(e written.7eography, &iography, 8istory*he are where all the boos about countries, famous people, and wars are ept.inally, Dewey had all his knowledge arranged and thought he was done, but reali!ed that there was a whole category that he missed.So he put all of the information like newspaper, encyclopedias, and mysteries things like "#$s and the %ermuda Triangle in the , which is pronounced !ero hundreds.9 more specifc categoriesDewey the decided to divide each of these 10 main sections intomore speci&c categories.This made 100 more possible categories.9 even more specifc categoriesDewey then divided each of the smaller categories into more speci&c categories.'e even an even more precise number to identify the even smaller categories.*his made a 9--- possible categories.The Decimal PointThe Decimal Point-o create the possibility of more than -o create the possibility of more than categories Dewey added the categories Dewey added the Where in our library can you find the Nonfiction boos?