FINDING A BOOK

How to Find a Book in the Library

DEWEYLibrary Catalog — Destiny — destiny.fresnounified.org

Fiction books are organized by the first three letters of the author’s last name. For example, if you wanted to find all the books written by Lemony Snicket, you would look for the call number FIC SNI – the FIC stands for “fiction” and the SNI stands for the first three letters of “Snicket.”

Nonfiction books are best explained by the following chart. However, I should warn you, not all nonfiction books are true. Don’t believe me? Check out the Dewey call numbers 398.2 and 741.5 (and those are not the only ones).

DEWEY-TABLE

FINDING A BOOK ON THE COMPUTER – USING OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog

Click here to open a PDF file that explains how to search for a book in the library using OPAC — found on the computers.

OPAC INFO COMPUTER-GIF

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Overview of the Dewey Decimal System

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