The document provides information for volunteers at the Woodstock High School Media Center. It details how to check out and return books using the library catalog and barcode scanner. It explains call numbers, which include classification numbers or letters and cutter letters based on the author's last name. Fiction books are shelved alphabetically by author's last name, while non-fiction uses the Dewey Decimal System and is categorized by subject. Special collections like audiovisual materials are also mentioned. A student volunteer application form is included.

1. Media Center Volunteer Information for:

2. You can help the Wolverines prepare students to learn from the past, apply to the present, and prepare for the future!

3. Woodstock High school accepts both student and outside volunteers.

4. Library MapComputersFictionComputersNon-fictionNon-fictionNon-fictionCouchComputersFront DeskComputers

5. Library CatalogThis can be found through Woodstock High School’s website:http://www.cherokee.k12.ga.us/Schools/woodstock-hs/default.aspx Click on the Media Center TAB on LEFT side of screen.

6. Media Center will be open.

7. Click on Catalog (mid-page).

8. Search for title, author or keyword.Checking OutType in Student’s identification number in the box next to Find. * Make sure Student’s name and picture match the person intending to check out.

9. Using Scanner scan barcode (on back of book) inside box next to Find.After item is checked out, run spine of book across the de-magnetizer.

10. Checking InUse Scanner to scan an item back into the system in box next to Find Copy.* Make sure Item shows appears in Check-in list.After Check in run spine of book through re-magnetizer.

11. What is a CALL NUMBER?A call number is a group of numbers or letters put together that tell you a book’s location.

12. The call number is located at the bottom of the spine of a book.

13. This includes the classification numbers or letters.Below the classification numbers or letters are the cutter letters.ClassificationLetterCutter Letters

14. A cutter letter comes from the first three letters of the authors last name.For Example: Caroline B. Cooney would be filed under F COO

15. Fiction Call Number

16. Non-Fiction Call Number

17. Reference Call Number

18. The library contains both fiction and non-fiction titles. Non - Fiction

19. Fiction books should be shelved in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

20. If several authors have the same last name, use the author’s first name to group them in alphabetical order.These books should be shelved in alphabetical orderbythe author’s first name because they all share a common last name. Andrew Smith

21. Betty Smith

22. Sherri Smith If the author has written several titles, the books are placed in alphabetical order from the title of the book. Example: All That GlitterBadRelative Strangers

23. Books Beginning with A, An, and The are shelved under the second word in the title. For Example: A Summer of Kings is shelved under F NOL recognizing Summer as the first word in the title.

24. Non-fiction books are shelved in accordance with the Dewey Decimal System.

25. Non-fiction books are shelved under The Dewey Decimal System in the following categories. AnthropologyGeographyHistoryPolitical ScienceSociology / PsychologyBiographyReference

26. If a book has numbers after the decimal point, arrange them in numerical order with their whole number first. The numbers are shelved in order from least to greatest after their whole number.For example:

27. When using the Dewey Decimal System, begin by shelving whole numbers together. Then shelve in alphabetical order by the author.