Library books are shelved left to right and from top to bottom and library signage will reflect that.
E DON = Spine Label
E = Easy or Everyone DON are the first three letters in the author's last name Donaldson, Julia.
Picture books like "Zog and the Flying Doctors" are arranged in alphabetical order by the first three letters
of the author’s last name.
The picture book spine label has an uppercase E which stands for Easy or Everyone because all ages enjoy reading these kinds of books, followed by the author’s last name.
Dot Color | Fountas & Pinnell |
Red | A, B |
Orange | C, D |
Yellow | E |
Green | F, G |
Blue | H, I |
Purple | J, K |
White | L, M |
PURPLE DOT E SHA = Spine Label
Purple reading level followed by E SHA for Easy or Everyone book titled Nate the Great and the Phony Clue, followed by the first three letters of the author's last name, Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
Dot Books = Colored dots on beginning to read books correspond with Fountas and Pinnell reading levels.
FIC KOR = Spine Label
FIC = Fiction Book KOR = the first three letters of the author's last name Korman, Gordan for the book "Restart".
Fiction books are arranged in alphabetical order by the first three letters of the author’s last name.
The fiction spine label will have FIC for fiction followed by the author’s last name.
PBK FIC ROY = Spine Label
PBK means paperback, FIC means Fiction, and ROY are the first three letters in the author's last name Roy, Ron, the author of the book :"The Runaway Racehorse".
Both fiction and nonfiction books that are soft covered "paperbacks" have a spine labile with the beginning letters PBK that indicates the book is a paperback.
598.7 SUE = Spine Label
598.7 is the Dewey location of the bock "Toco Toucans Bright Enough to Disappear" in the 500's (Natural Sciences). SUE are the first three letters of the author Suen, Anastasia;
Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves using the Dewey Decimal System. This system invented by librarian Melvil Dewey groups books by topic, dividing them into 10 main classes or categories.
000–099 | Computer Science, Information, and General Works |
100–199 | Philosophy and Psychology |
200–299 | Religion |
300–399 | Social Sciences |
400–499 | Language |
500–599 | Natural Sciences |
600–699 | Technology |
700–799 | The Arts and Recreation |
800-899 | Literature |
900-999 | History, Biography, and Geography |
These 10 main groups are in turn subdivided again and again to provide more specific subject groups.
921 LIN = Spine Label
Biography books are located in the 900's (Biography) shelves by who the book is about like "Who Was Abraham Lincoln?", instead of by the author’s last name. For example, all the biography books written about President Abraham Lincoln by various authors are placed on the shelf together, making it easier to find all the books in the collection written about that person. The Biography spine label is designated with the number 921 followed by the first three letters of the famous person’s last name Lincoln, Abraham. .
Students, click on the above Maple catalog image to search for books by title, author, subject, series, or keyword.
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Title Searching - Searches for your search term anywhere in the title.
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Author Searching - Searches for authors and illustrators.
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Subject Searching - Searches for titles about a particular subject, topic, person, or place.
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Series Searching - Searches for titles in a particular series of books.
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Keyword Searching - Searches all title, author, subject, series, and note tags (fields of information) in the district’s title records.
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Wildcards - are helpful when you are unsure of the complete word or do not know the exact spelling.
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