Operation Library Trip

Library Trip Term 3 2010

Wednesday 18th August

Last Wednesday Room 13 and Room 11 went to the Hutt War Memorial Library to have a look and learn about the Dewey Decimal System.
We found out that the Dewey Decimal System is a way to organize books throughout libraries around the world.
The Dewey Decimal System was named after Melvil Dewey in 1876.
The system works sort of like a supermarket in which it orders books into different groups of numbers in certain areas.
We played a fun game of bingo, which involved the Dewey decimal system.
After this we went for a walk around the library locating the different areas and the types of books we would find.
We had time at the end to search for space books for our up and coming topic and were able to get them out on our library cards.

“I can’t believe that there are so many different kinds of books in each section of the system.” Emily

“I like the Dewey Decimal System because it is way easier to find books.” Paolo

“Now I understand how the Dewey Decimal System works.” William S

“Now I can find all of my favorite books like the Guinness book of records.” Molly