Muktangan Libraries

organizes information into 10 main subject areas. Dewey organized the entire world of knowledge into; 10 main classes [000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 ] The Dewey Decimal Classification System

The system is made up of ten main classes 000 : General Works 001 General Knowledge Computers, 020 Libraries 030 Encyclopedias & World Record Books 060 Museums 070 Newspapers

100 : Philosophy and Psychology 130 Ghosts & the Supernatural 150 Psychology, Feelings etc. 170 Emotions, Values, Animal Rights 180 Philosophy

200 : RELIGION 220 Bible Stories 290 Mythology, World Religions 294 Religions of Indic origin Hinduism Sources of Hinduism Ramayana Mahabharat

300 : SOCIAL SCIENCES Social Issues - immigration, racism, World Cultures 310 Almanacs & Year Books 320 Government & Politics 330 Money, Working 340 Law- Court System, Famous Trials 350 Armed Forces – Army, Navy, Air Force, etc. 360 Social Problems & Services (eg. Drugs, Environmental Issues, Police etc. )

370 Education 371 Teachers & Teaching 372 Primary Education (Schools, Curriculum including Text books ) 378 Higher Education ( Universities) 380 Commerce, Communication Transportation, 390 Customs, Etiquette & Folklore 394 General Customs eg. Holidays, Festivals etc Folk literature Folktales, Fairy Tales

400 : LANGUAGES 420 Dictionaries, Grammar 423 English Dictionaries 490 Other languages 491 East Indo-European Language Indian Languages Hindi Marathi

500 : Pure science 500 Science Experiments 510 Mathematics 520 Stars, Planets, Astronomy 530 Physical Science-Force & Motion, Electricity, Magnetism, Light 540 Chemistry, Atoms & Molecules, Rocks and Minerals

550 Science of the Earth (eg. Geology, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Weather) 551 Geology, Meteorology & General Hydrology Oceanography 560 Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Animals, Fossils 570 Forests, Deserts, Mountains, Evolution 580 Plants, Flowers & Trees 590 Animals & Insects 591 Zoology 599 Mammals of the Land and Ocean, Whales Paenungulata Elephants

600 : PEOPLE USING SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY 600 Inventions 610 Human body, Health 620 Rockets, Trains, Cars, Trucks 630 Farming, Farm Animals, Cats, Dogs, Pets. 640 Cookbooks, Sewing 660 How Food is made 670 Paper Making 690 Building

700 : ARTS and RECREATION 710 Art Appreciation, History of Art 720 Architecture- Houses, 730 Origami, Paper Crafts 740 Drawing, Crafts, 750 Painting 760 Printing 770 Photography 780 Music 790 Sports, Games, Magic, Racing, Hunting etc.

800 : LITERATURE 810 Poetry, Plays, Jokes & Riddles 820 English Literature 821 English Poetry 822 Drama Shakespeare 823 English Fiction 890 Other Literature 891 East Indo- European Literature Modern Indian Literature Marathi Literature

900 : History, Geography, and Biography 910 Geography & Explorers 912 Atlases 920 Flags, People (Biography) 930 Archeology, Ancient Civilizations 940 European Countries ( World War etc. ) 950 Asian & Middle Eastern Countries 954 Indian History 970 North & Central American Countries, 980 South American Countries

What is a CATALOGUE ? A Catalogue is a complete list of items in any Collection arranged in a specific manner. for eg. A collection of designer dresses in a shop / boutique - Even a menu card in a restaurant How will you find books in the library easily? LIBRARY CATALOGUE Simple – Just use our LIBRARY CATALOGUE A Library Catalogue therefore is a list of Books and all other Library materials like Story Books, Picture Books, Charts, and even AV items like Cds, DVDs etc. A typical library catalogue is one arranged in an alphabetical Order by AUTHOR, TITLE and by CALL NO.

–The catalog forms the basis for access to the library’s collection –A library catalog (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries –Bibliography means DESCRIPTIPON of the items found in a library –Bibliographic Items include ALL TYPES OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, CHARTS, MAPS etc,

Description of Books --- How will you describe a BOOK? The following characteristics or fields are very necessary to describe a BOOK I ) Author, ii) Title, iii) Publisher, iv) Place of Publication v) Year of Publ. vi) Total Page nos. vii) CALL NO. of the Book, viii ) Keywords or Subject headings ix ) Useful Pictures in the Book

Why do we need catalogs? For retrieval –Most collections are too large for someone to remember every item in the collection For inventory and Access –Catalogs serve as a record of what is owned and as a reminder of what has been acquired, lost, replaced, etc. –A Library Catalogue helps you access (find) Books and all other types of documents in a Library in the least amount of time –A Catalogue also helps you find Books easily without having to go through all the shelves. –A Catalogue helps you access BOOKS through any characteristic i.e. Author, Title, Publisher, Subject / Keyword etc.

How will you locate books and find information in your Library? Through Call Numbers by which all books are arranged on the shelves. WHAT IS A CALL NUMBER? It is a 3 digit Class number given to books according their subjects, using the DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification System) along with the Author mark. ( Eg a book on Controversial knowledge) What is an Author mark ? It indicates the first three letters of the surname of the book’s Author (Eg. Dup for John Dupont)

How does the Call no. look on the cover of the book? Like this ! A Library Catalogue can be MANUAL or COMPUTERISED Manual – made in Card format Computerized – in an ONLINE Database

Muktangan Library Catalogue is an Online Database of all books and other materials available in the library The Catalogue is created on a simple Database on an application called MICROSOFT ACCESS ( which is very similar to EXCEL) You can search books by author, title, subject or Keyword and even publisher All that you have to do is follow some simple steps given below to get any book or whatever you want

 Click on Sayani Library Catalogue on the Desktop of your computer (It is a Microsoft Access file)  Click on ‘Reference Books’ in the Table that you see  Now you will be able to see the entire Catalogue  All you have to do is to ‘Right Click’ on any of the columns Author, Title, Subject, Publisher etc. and type out your query in the ‘Filter Space’ provided  Now you‘ll see only those books which you may want  Just note down the ‘CALL NO.’ of whatever book you want to read and find it on the shelves (Hope you remember Books are shelved according to Call Nos.) Now you are ready to use the Library !!!

How the books are shelved:, How the books are shelved: left-to-right, top-to-bottom That means you start at the on the top shelf and move to the That means you start at the left on the top shelf and move to the right until the shelf ends.