Shelving Quick Check #2

How do we shelve non-fiction books?

• Non-fiction books are shelved by numerical order first
• Non-fiction books are shelved by alphabetical order first

When do we shelve nonfiction according to alphabetical order?

• When we have two or more books with the exact same number

• When we do not know the numerical order

Which call number comes first?

• 461 BAL
• 460.1 BAL
• 460.001 BAL
• 460.01 BAL

Which call number comes first?

• 597.3 THA
• 597.3 ARN
• 597.3 GRE
• 597.3 MAT

Which call number comes last?

• 949.1 HAT
• 945.02 RAD
• 953.063 RUL
• 953.06 RUL

461.04 is the same as 461.040

• True
• False

Which set of call numbers is correctly organized from least to greatest?

• 954 MAT, 934.01 SIM, 912 KNO, 972 SHA
• 720 VIS, 793.7 WIC, 793.7 HAN, 796.323 STE
• 599.33 OTF, 599.32 KUS, 599.77 MAR, 599.75 HAR
• 636.2 DOY, 636.3 CLA, 636.93 CAR, 636.93 HUT

Which set of call numbers is correctly organized?

• 591.4 IPC, 537 ROY, 595.6 HAL, 595.4 SCH
• 634.9 LAN, 636.7 GAI, 636.73 GRE, 636.93 BJO
• 394.2 SCH, 358.4 STA, 398.2 KIM, 359.9 YOM
• 001.94 MIL, 133.1 MCC, 133.1 MAT, 031 NAT

Biographies are shelved in alphabetical order by the first 3 letters of the last name of the person the book is about. Below are lists of call numbers from books in our library, which is the correct shelving order for these biographies?

• B WAL, B FOR, B SMI, B CAR

• B FOR, B SMI, B CAR, B WAL

• B CAR, B SMI, B WAL, B FOR

• B CAR, B FOR, B SMI, B WAL

Sports books have a 796 call number. Which one of these lists are in correct order?

• 796.3 GEL, 796 BOR, 796.3 SMI, 796.3 WOR

• 796 BOR, 796.3 GEL, 796.3 SMI, 796.3 WOR

• 796.3 SMI, 796.3 WOR, 796.3 GEL, 796 BOR

• 796 BOR, 796.3 GEL, 796.3 WOR, 796.3 SMI