Library orientation - Destiny explained

Lesson 1 Library Orientation: The Library Catalogue

“A system for classifying books and other library materials by subject” (“Dewey Decimal System”, ODLIS).

Most school libraries have a separate section for fiction.

The number/letters found on the spine are called the call number, which determines where the material should be placed in the library.

Library Catalogue

Our online catalogue is called Destiny. It is a directory of all the resources the library has including online resources.

Library Catalogue

Each resource in the library has a record in the library catalogue. The record is made up of a lot of fields that contain information about the resource. A few of the fields include:Author, title, publication information (who, where, when), summary of what the book is about, subjects included, awards

When searching, you can choose to search specific fields or all the fields of a record.

Library Catalogue: searching

Searches most of the fields in all the records. Will give you the largest number of results

Searches just the title fields in the record.

Searches just the author fields in the record. Search the last name of the author: Dickens, Charles

Searches the subject (category) fields in the record.

Library Catalogue: searching

You can also narrow you search using limiters. If you are at home, you may want to limit your search to a certain material type such as ebooks.

Library resources • Equipment (cameras, video camcorders, Kindle,

tripods, etc) – during the period needed or overnight

• Books – 3 weeks• Reference – during the period needed or overnight

• Periodicals - (also known as serials, magazines, journals) – back copies: week, current copy: does not circulate

• Videos/DVDs - overnight

Library resources - iconsDestiny uses icons to assist you in knowing what type of resource you may use.

e-book

book

magazineequipment

Library resources –Call number and location The call number will tell you where in the library you can find the book. The “G” in the location field means it is in the “general collection”.

Shelved with the DVDs and VHS tapes.

Books that are assigned in English classes are kept in the Classics section – not the regular fiction section

Shelved in the non-fiction section. This is a book of essays about the novel.

This is an e-book but you will need a Kindle reader to access it.