LIBRARY
ASSIGNMENT - February 1, 2002
How
the books in the library are arranged and why?
Follow the
"Dewey Cartoon" link and read the comic strip by moving
the scroll bar from left to right. Answer the question on your worksheet.
Click on the footprint labeled "Dewey Questions". Answer the questions
on your worksheet.
"Why
not organize websites using the dewey decimal system?"
That's the question Gail Shea Grainger
asked. Her response is the Dewey
Browse library.
Use Dewey
Browse to locate websites and answer the questions on your worksheet.
TIme permitting, return to the Dewey
Cartoon link. Scroll to the end of the comic strip and
Click on the footprint labeled "Dewey
Derby". Discover where each of the books in the stack would be located
using Dewey Decimal.
Click on the footprint labeled "Explore
More" and learn how some other special libraries are organized.
Congratulations Alyssa DiBenedetto
-
3rd Place Winner in a Poetry Contest
sponsored by Teen Magazine.
Her poem"Fantasy" is being published
in a book and is posted to Poetry.com.