How+to+Find+Library+Books

Our media center has four main sections: the **Easy** section, the **Fiction** section, the **Non-Fiction** section, and the **Multimedia** section.

Shelves in the Easy section are lettered, for finding picture books quickly. Spine labels on these books have an upper letter and a bottom letter. The upper letter is "E", for the "Easy" section. The bottom letter is the beginning letter of the author's last name. It should match the letter on the shelf.
 * __Easy Section: __**

Shelves in the Fiction section are also lettered for finding chapter books quickly. Their spine labels contain three upper letters and three bottom letters. The top three are always "FIC" for Fiction section. The bottom three are always the beginning three letters of the author's last name. The first letter of the author's last name should match the letter on the shelf. The books should then be in ABC order by the second and third letters.
 * __Fiction Section: __**

True books are arranged using the Dewey Decimal System, to search by subject. Each shelf has a number range or a 3-digit number, that is part of a number line from 000 - 999. Spine labels on these books have three numbers on top and three letters on the bottom. Match the spine label's numbers to the shelf's numbers. (The bottom three letters are the first three letters of the author's last name.) For **Easy Nonfiction** readers, we put an "E" above the numbers on the spine label and shelve these in the Easy section across from Non-Fiction.
 * __Non-Fiction Section: __**

This section has a variety of books: popular series, audio, bilingual, ESL, autographed, and class-made books.
 * __Multimedia Section: __**