Wilson High School Library

Jane Corl, Librarian Open 7:40 am to 3:10 pm Serves grades 7-12 Books are checked out for

two weeks Overdue fines are 5 cents

per day (no charge for weekends or school holidays)

What is a call number?

Every book in the library is given a unique call number to serve as an address for locating the book on the shelf. The call number itself is composed of two parts—the Dewey Decimal Classification number and the first three letters of the author’s (or editor’s) last name.

Dewey Decimal System

The Dewey system has ten main classes, which are listed below. 000 Generalities  100 Philosophy and Psychology 200 Religion 300 Social Science 400 Language 500 Natural Science and Mathematics 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) 700 Arts 800 Literature 900 Geography and History

Let’s Catch a Butterfly

To find the classification number for butterflies, we need to start with the class for natural sciences, the 500's. This means that the first number of the call number will be a 5. Let's look at the ten divisions of this 500 class. 

510 Mathematics 520 Astronomy 530 Physics 540 Chemistry 550 Earth Sciences 560 Paleontology 570 Life Sciences 580 Botanical Sciences 590 Zoological SciencesWhere would you most likely find a book about butterflies?

Butterflies—Zoological Sciences

500--Natural Science

590--Zoological Sciences

595--Other invertebrates

595.7--Insects

595.78--Lepidoptera

595.789--Butterflies

Biographies

A biography is a written history about a person's life. To keep all the biographies about the same person shelved together, a cutter number is assigned for the biographee. For example, all the biographies about President Clinton are shelved by the call number 92 Cli    

Biography

A book about President George W. Bush would be found in the BIOGRAPHY section and identified by the call number

92

Bus

Collective Biographies

A book which contains the life stories of several people is called a collective biography.

The Call Number for a collective biography is 920.

These books are also found in the biography section of this library.

Fiction

All the fiction books are shelved in one section.

The Call Number is FIC plus the first three letters of the author’s last name.

Non-fiction

The non-fiction books are classified from 001 to 999 using the Dewey Decimal System.

The second line of the Call Number is the first three letters of the author’s last name.

The Call Number for this book is

595.789 Gla

Reference

Reference books are also arranged using the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

The Call Number is preceded by the REF prefix.REF 616.003

BUN This reference book is about diseases.

The editor is Bryan Bunch.Reference books CANNOT be checked out.

Periodicals

Our newest magazines are on the periodical rack by the biography section.

Magazines cannot be taken from the library.

We keep magazines for 5 years.

Old issues of magazines are stored in the periodical room.

Accelerated Reader Books

All AR books are marked with pink book tape on the spine.

The Book Level and Points are written inside the front cover.

You can find the level of an AR book by looking in the AR Quiz program on the computer.

InfoCentre Search—Online Catalog

To search for books in our library, use the online card catalog named “InfoCentreSearch.”

Quick Search

By book titleBy author

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By subjectWizards -- Fiction. Magic -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile fiction. Wizards -- Juvenile fiction. Magic -- Juvenile fiction. Schools -- Juvenile fiction. 

Rowling, J. K.

Advanced Search

You can use words or phrases to complete an ADVANCED SEARCH.

You can search for books, videos, etc.

You can look for items by Call Number or Barcode Number.

Reading Program Search

With InfoCentre you can search for an AR book that is in your ZPD.

You can also search for a book by its point value.

Let’s Review

What is the first part of the Call Number for all biographies in this library?

How are AR books identified?Which books cannot be checked out?How do you search for a book?How can you find the reading level for an AR

book?How long can you keep a book?How much per day is the fine for an overdue

book?