This document provides information about how to use a card catalog system in a library to locate books and other resources. It explains that a card catalog contains individual cards arranged alphabetically with information like the author, title, subject, and call number of each item in the library. It discusses the different types of cards (author, title, subject) and shows samples. It also explains how call numbers are organized according to the Dewey Decimal System with books grouped by topic and assigned numbers in numerical order. The document aims to teach students how to navigate a card catalog to find resources independently in the library.

2. EN7SS-II-a-1.5.3: Use the
card
catalog, the online public
access catalog, or electronic
search engine to locate
specific resources

3. Does your school have a
school library? Have you
ever been to it? Have you
ever tried to find some
books and borrow ? How
did you do it?

4. Study the sample
cards below and
answer the following
questions.

8. 1. Who is the author of the book?
2. What is the title of the book?
3. What is the call number?
4. Who is the publisher of the
book?
5. Where and where the book is
published?

9. What does a card catalog
supply? What
information do they
usually contain?
How can they help you in

10. The library has many
kinds of materials to help
you in your schoolwork –
books, encyclopedias,
newspapers, and

11. Library is sometimes
called the Learning
Resource Center (
LRC), others call it
Media Center.

12. Although the librarians are
always glad to be of help,
finding a material on your
own is a good exercise of
independence, and an
opportunity to explore the
library.

13. In all libraries, you can
find a card catalog
composed of drawers
with cards inside it for
each book in the library.

14. It is a method by which the library
puts a system of all its acquisition.
A filing cabinet contains all the
cards that are arranged in
alphabetical order. Guide letters
are on the front of each drawer
tell what cards are in the drawer.

15. If you know how to use the
card catalog it will help you
to find the book you need
easily without spending to
much time looking for it.
There are three kinds of
cards.

16. -The name of the author
or author’s last name is
printed on the top

18. -It presents the title of each
book on the first line of the
card. A title that begins
with a, an, and the is listed
on the second word.

20. -It lists each book of non –
fiction by the name of its
subject.

22. -Each non – fiction book
has a call number. It
appears on all three cards
and on the book itself. It
can help us find any book
in the library

23. You may have noticed that the
nonfiction, college and career, and
reference sections all have a series of
numbers as their call numbers. That’s
because those materials are arranged
according to the Dewey Decimal
System.

24. The Dewey Decimal System divides books by
topic and assigns them a call number (and
location) based on that topic. The Dewey
Decimal System starts with the numbers 001
and goes to 999.999… The Dewey Decimal
System arranges materials in numerical (or
number) order. That means that books with
the call number 100 will go before books
with the call number 200 will go before
books with the call number 300, etc.

26. 1. Author
2. Date of birth
3. Title of the book
4. Edition/ revision
statement

27. 5. Imprint ( place and date of
publication and publisher)
6. Collation ( physical
description of the book, the
number of pages, illustrations)

28. 7. Series notes
8. Notes ( bibliographies ,
appendices)
9. Tracing ( cards provided for the
book)
10. System of classification

30. “Let’s Pretend”
You are a librarian. A new
book
was donated to your library.
Make an author card for this
book with the following data:

31. Title: Baseballs Hottest Hitters
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Author: Nathan Aseng
Place of Publication: Minneapolis
Date of Publication: 1983
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.53

32. Part 1. Here are the first
lines of card catalog
cards. Write whether
each card is a title,
author, or subject card.

33. 1. The World of UFOs
2. Chang, Daniel
3. WINDMILLS
4. The Black Cauldron
5. Berger, Melvin

34. Part 2. Write the letter or
letters of the drawer in
which you would find
each of the following in
the card catalog.

35. Drawers:
A –C M – N W – Z
D– E O – R
F – I S – T
J – L U – V

36. Example: The Hobbit
Answer: F – I

37. 6. The Mysterious Planet
7. Robert Frost
8. Photography
9. computers
10. Search for Big Foot