<p> Shelving and the Dewey Decimal System</p><p>1. Explain the purpose of the Dewey Decimal System. </p><p>2. Explain why a book that isn’t shelved in the correct location is essential a lost book.</p><p>3. What two things can be identified from a book’s spine label?</p><p>4. When shelving fiction materials, what do you do if two authors have the exact same last name?</p><p>5. When shelving fiction materials what do you do when we have multiple titles by the same author?</p><p>6. How do you shelve nonfiction books when several of them have the exact same Dewey Decimal number?</p><p>7. What do you take into account first when shelving nonfiction books – the author’s last name or the Dewey Decimal number?</p><p>8. How will you be able to identify a reference book?</p><p>9. What is unique about the shelving of individual biographies?</p><p>10. Where do the 92’s and 920’s go on the shelves? 11. How are the back issues of periodicals organized?</p><p>12. In what direction are books shelved? </p><p>13. What is the purpose of reading shelves?</p><p>14. List the seven criteria against which your shelves will be evaluated.</p>