Overview
The nonfiction section of the Youth Collection houses tons of factual titles for juveniles and teens covering a variety of topics, from outer space to the inner ear! Like most public and school libraries, Ozark Regional uses the Dewey Decimal system to organize its nonfiction books (for a great overview of how Dewey Decimal Classification, aka DDC, works, visit this site). Readers beeline for nonfiction for lots of reasons: to complete research for a school paper, to learn about a favorite hobby, or just to read for fun! The nonfiction section also hosts a growing collection of kid-safe graphic novels (if you don't know what GN's are, Scholastic has a great overview of graphic novels they offer for elementary through teen readers).
What It Looks Like
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Left: The cover of a Nonfiction title. Right: A close-up of the spine label. |
Here's an image of the catalog card for the above book (which happens to be one of the kid-safe graphic novels our library shelves under the 741.5 Dewey designation)...
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Title entry card for David Peterson's Mouse Guard: Winter 1152. |
We know this title is Juvenile Nonfiction because our catalog card locator contains a "J", followed by a Dewey number. We know we can find this book shelved in the nonfiction section, shelved first by the Dewey number (since it's a "700", it's located about three-fourths of the way through the collection, after the "600's" and before the "800's"), and then by the first three letters of the author's last name.
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Mouse Guard can be found with the other graphic novels and cartooning/drawing books located under the 741.5 Dewey number. |
Keep reading!
Shaen
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