The past few weeks I have been focusing on the Dewey Decimal System. This is the system that is used for organizing books in my school library, as it is in all school libraries across Canada. Our class lessons have been focussing on this subject, and I was thinking a lot about this classification system while working on the second assignment that I will be submitting for this course.
What I have really come away with, is that students do not need to memorize the different sections of the Dewey Decimal System in order to find books on their topic of interest. Rather, we need to teach the students how the DDS works, and that there are sections, and a reason for why the books are organized the way they are. Then it is the responsibility of the Teacher-Librarian to have reference tools readily available, such as an illustrated poster or signage on the shelves so students can know where to refer to before beginning to look for their books.
If students understand the general concept of the DDS, and we make the information readily accessible for what the common and popular sections are, then we have done our job!
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