Media Center 101

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Media Center 101

• How to quickly and easily find what youre
  looking for

http//destiny.ccs.k12.nc.us
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Start with a question.

• Example Where can I find books about horses?

• Type HORSES here
• Click the KEYWORD button

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Look at the result list.

• There are 53 books, both fiction and nonfiction,
  that have something to do with horses
• If you want to see all titles on one page, click
  the Show All button
• To separate the fiction from the nonfiction
  books, use the drop down Sort by menu and
  choose Call Number

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Look at the result list.

• Call numbers are found UNDER the title. The call
  number for After the Storm is F BRO for The
  Appaloosa Horse is 636.1 STE
• To see if the book is available to check out,
  look here. If it says 0 of 3 available, it means
  that the media center owns three copies of the
  title, but all three are checked out.
• To see a summary of the book, click on the title.
  This screen will appear.

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Call Numbers
F COO
641 DAV

• A call number is a books address.
• Call numbers can either be all letters or a
  combination of letters and numbers
• The standard call number for fiction books is a
  capital F followed by the first three letters
  of the AUTHORS LAST NAME.
• Most nonfiction books have a 3-digit number
  followed by the first three letters of the
  authors last name.
• Biographies autobiographies differ in that they
  have a 3 digit number followed by the SUBJECTS
  last name.

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Where Can You Find Call Numbers?

• On the SPINE of a book (the part of a book you
  see when its shelved)
• They are located on the SPINE LABEL which is
  placed near the bottom of the spine

F ROW
F TOL
398.2 SAN
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Call Numbers Prefixes

• Some materials can ONLY be checked out by
  teachers.
• These have prefixes in front of the call number.
• Of course, the reference books are there for you
  to read and use while youre in the
• media center.
• R 972 DAB R is a reference book
• SUP F AVI SUP is a book in a class set
• VCR 560 GRO VCR is a video or DVD
• P 373 COV P is a professional book
• EQU CAL EQU is equipment

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More Prefixes

• PB DAV PB is a paperback book and is shelved
  with fiction
• SC AME SC stands for story collectionthese
• books of short stories have their own
• area after the fiction section

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Fiction Shelf Arrangement

• Books by Susan Cooper and by Caroline B. Cooney
  all have the call number F COO.
• All of Caroline B. Cooneys books will come on
  the shelf before Coopers, because

COONEY comes before COOPER alphabetically.
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Fiction Shelf Arrangement

• If an author has more than one title, his/her
  books are
• shelved in alphabetical order of the title. For
  example,
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry
• Potter and the Sorcerers Stone both have the
  call number
• F ROW, but Halfblood Prince comes first on the
  shelf.

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Nonfiction Shelf Arrangement

• Nonfiction books are arranged in number order. A
  book with the call number 292 DOL comes before a
  book with the call number 300 RAS.
• Nonfiction call numbers are assigned according
  to the Dewey Decimal System. Each number stands
  for a different subject.

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Nonfiction Shelf Arrangement

• The Dewey Decimal call number is just like a
  decimal number in math class.

133.01 BOR
133.1 BOR
133.2 BOR
133.21 BOR

• Smaller numbers come before larger numbers on the
  shelf.

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Nonfiction Shelf Arrangement

• If the first part of the nonfiction call number
  is the same,
• books are arranged alphabetically by the letters.

133 BOR
133 FRI
133 SPR