Download - Year 7 Introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification

Information Literacy

Information Literacy: Non-Fiction

At the end of this session you will be able to....

Locate Non-Fiction Books

At the end of this session you will know....

How the Non-Fiction books are ordered

How to use the Non-Fiction Spine labels

How to find Non-Fiction Books by main subject area & colour



Are you sitting comfortably?

Melville Dewey



Room 1

= 100’s

= Thinking

Room 2

= 200’s

= Religions

Room 3

= 300’s

= Community

Room 4

= 400’s

= Languages

Room 5

= 500’s

= Sciences

Room 6

= 600’s

= Technology

Room 7

= 700’s

= Sports, Arts & Hobbies

Room 8

= 800’s

= Literature

Room 9

= 900’s

= History & Geography

Room 10

= 000’s

= Reference e.g. Encyclopedias



The next challenge is to complete the map of Mr Dewey’s house.

Write the correct Dewey number and

the main subject in each room

Don’t worry I’ll put the previous screen back on for you

But beware – things will start disappearing

so write quickly........



Room 1

= 100’s

= Thinking

Room 2

= 200’s

= Religions

Room 3

= 300’s

= Community

Room 4

= 400’s

= Languages

Room 5

= 500’s

= Sciences

Room 6

= 600’s

= Technology

Room 7

= 700’s

= Sports, Arts & Hobbies

Room 8

= 800’s

= Literature

Room 9

= 900’s

= History & Geography

Room 10

= 000’s

= Reference e.g. Encyclopedias



To complete the challenge we will need to go into the MRC

In pairs your challenge

is to find out the colour of the

spine labels for each section

Each section has a certain colour spine label

Then colour in your map of Mr Dewey’s house