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Locating Non-Fiction Books In The Library or....."Do We" Really Know Dewey?

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Who was Melville Dewey? Click on this link to find out

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Click on this link to learn about the Dewey Decimal System of Classification...there are also puzzles and quizes to check your knowledge of "Dewey."

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Non-Fiction books are shelved according to the subject of the book. Melville Dewey assigned a "dewey decimal number" to every subject. This "dewey decimal number," along with the first three letters of the last name of the author is the call number of the book. A call number is the book's address in the Library. Non-fiction books are shelved in dewey number order.

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SEE THE SAMPLE BOOKSHELF ABOVE
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