Friday, February 13, 2009

Bibliography Review

The first lesson we studied on listing information in a bibliography was based on the bibliography format of a particluar college. In this lesson, we will focus on the standard format for listing bibliography.

1. Give the definiton of the word STANDARD.

Bibliography Information Review

Do you remember what a bibliography is? Well just in case you don’t, we are going to do a little review on this topic.

A bibliography is a list of the sources you use to help you write your research paper or essay.The reason you must create a bibliography is to give credit to the authors of the research materials you use to help you write your paper and to prove that your paper is not plagiarized.

Examples of listing books by a single author:

Author’s Last name, First name, Title of Book, City of publication: Publisher, ©year

©year=copyright year

List the bibliography of one book written by a single author in each category of the Dewey Decimal System

E.g. 000
Thornton, Sarah, Seven Days in the Art World, New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co. November 2008

E.g.500
DiCamillo, Kate, The Tale of Despereaux, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, April 2006

You can use books you have at home, books in the library and you can also search for books online. A good place is AMAZON. Here is the web address: http://www.amazon.com/

We will walk through the steps for searching Amazon in class.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Dewey Worksheet

Hello eveyone, please click on the link below, follow the instructions and complete the exercise. Ms. Cooper

YOUR COMPLETED ANSWER SHEET IS DUE NEXT LESSON.

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/deweytask2.html

Monday, February 2, 2009

SGHS Library Blog

Hello everyone. Please visit our library blog to keep up with special notices about our current and upcoming events.

Here is the address http://sghsgblibrary.blogspot.com/

Thanks, Ms. Cooper

How Dewey organised information

To help people find information in a library, the Dewey Decimal System organizes information into 10 main subject areas.

Remember from our last lesson that each subject is given a number and the books and other items are arranged on the shelves in number order, according to their topic.

Here are the 10 main Dewey Decimal System subject areas with a list of some of the topics and types of items to be found in each one.


000 General Knowledge Almanacs and Encyclopedias are kept here and you'll find information about libraries and museums here.


100 Psychology & Philosophy Information about death & dying, Ethics (ways of behaving) , Feelings, Logic (about thinking) and about making friends. Optical illusions and superstitions are here too.


200 Religions & Mythology All about the religions of the world such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Quakers.


300 Social Sciences & Folklore Careers (occupations or jobs) , Customs such as marriages and birthdays, environment and recycling, about families, how governments work, and about manners, and money.


400 Languages & Grammar All the languages spoken including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.Sign Languages are here too and you'll find dictionaries here.


500 Maths & Science Animals, Chemistry, Dinosaurs, Fish, Geology, Insects, Physics, Planets, and Plants600 Medicine & Technology Computers, Engineering, Farming, Health, Human Body, Manufacturing, Nutrition


700 Arts & Recreation Architecture, Crafts, Drawing, Games, Jokes & Riddles, Music, Puppets and kites, Sports


800 Literature Stories, Plays, Poetry, and all about the authors who wrote them.


900 Geography & History Biographies, Countries of the world and travel, Native Americans and the Inuit, Australia, information about wars.



Remember: Always acknowledge where you find informationIf you use any of the information on this page acknowledge this source in your bibliography like this:Thomas & Sydenham, 2006 How Dewey organised information [Online], Available: www.kidcyber.com.au