SHARE: Dewey Decimal Instruction

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

Hello,
        I did a brief overview of the Dewey Decimal System for my 8th graders.  =
This took about 20 minutes.  My "motivational hook" was finding out who =
were the collectors.  Some had stamps, video games, firearms, etc.  I =
then asked them what they would do if they had a 1,000 of these.  How =
would you organize it?  How would you structure it?  If you were a =
dealer in these items, how would you find a particular item for a =
customer?  It was a nice lead in for Melvil Dewey.  The next day they =
came down as a class and did a worksheet in the nonfiction area of the =
library.  These were just trivia questions, but it worked very =
effectively.

        The question I wanted to pose is this one: are any of you familiar with =
unusual cataloging systems that were developed for one collection or =
another?  I was thinking that some of the scientific collections might =
be a bit unusual.  What about museums?

Ed Nizalowski, SMS
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
Enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

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