Module 1: How is the library organized?

K-12 School Libraries and Public Libraries

1.Use the Dewey Decimal System

2.Separate Biography, Fiction and Non-Fiction sections unlike college and university libraries using the Library of Congress system.

3.Many more materials for recreational reading

4.Collections reflect the needs of the users they serve. For example, high school libraries do not have as many adult materials and elementary school libraries do not have detailed science books or advanced mathematics.

Academic Libraries

The primary purpose of the academic libraries is to serve the needs of students, faculty and the university community. You will find important literary works, critical and analytical resources and materials that will provide indepth information under every discipline(or subject area).

Academic libraries are generally organized using the Library of Congress Classification System (LC), which uses letters for the major subject areas and numbers for the subsections within those areas.
Academic libraries also have a well developed network and ties with a wide range of libraries and research centers so as to provide access to more materials for their patrons.

Library Instruction is an important part of academic libraries, knowing how to identify and use the right resources and search engines in research not only saves you time but leads to academic success.

University of Toledo Carlson Library

Carlson Library has two exterior entrances with two sets of two doors which lead to a hallway. Coming from the Student Center side, The office for the Learning Enhancement Center supervisors, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and The Writing Center are on the left side of the hall; the other exit is straight ahead and the Carlson Library is on the right. There are two sets of four doors. The first set closest to the Student Center are the exit doors. Beware!
The set farthest from the Student Center are the entrance doors. (The ones with handles.)


About the elevators: the elevators are in the core, or center of the library. In each core area when leaving the elevators, there are restrooms to the left, women’s first and then men’s, there are doors facing each other in an alcove. Above the street level floor each of the levels has a set of double doors that open into the library floors. Across from the elevator closest to the restrooms you will find a computer terminal also on each of these floors.

Lower Level – from the elevators, there are doors slightly to the left for Current Periodicals and Microform & Multimedia, to the right and then right again after the doors, you will find the Computer Lab, to the right from the elevators and then left after the doors will be Tutoring (LEC), Academic Support Services is left and left again after about thirty feet.


First floor – Circulation and Reserves are on the right of the entrance, the Reference Information desk is on the left, Elevators after a slight angle to the right are ahead, Offices for librarians are to the left and all the way in the back of the library. Reference materials are toward the left side of the entrance and extend all of the way to the back of the library. The Globe is forward slightly to the left toward the elevators near the new materials area just past circulation.


Second floor – Bound Periodicals Titles are in alphabetical order A through HV are
to the left through the doors and then left toward A and right toward HV; HX through NX to the right, again left toward the lower part of the alphabet and right toward the higher. There is a staircase to the street level floor directly opposite the elevators. Room 2000 is on this floor and is found by going slightly left of the staircase entrance and through the copier room and veering right on a diagonal.


Third floor – Government Documents is to the right and the collection begins toward the left after you go through the doors, Ohio documents come first for three stack rows, then United States documents begin with A for Department of Agriculture, The government documents office is located along the outer wall. Stack row that leads to the office is about fifteen feet to the left from the core doors. Maps also right from the elevators and then left and a short left. Bound Periodicals titles beginning with O-Z are through the doors at the left end of the core and again begin from the farthest side to the left.


Fourth floor – Circulating Books, Call # A – PN start at the far left of the right hand core door and wrap around to the other side., Juvenile Books are found in their own area in the corner of the building where the PNs end. So they would be right then right and left through the stack to the wall.


Fifth floor –Canaday Center and Art Gallery are left from the elevators and step through the doors into the gallery and the Center is to the left nearby, General Books, PQ-Z start to the right from the doors and Theses & Dissertations directly follow the Z section, right off the lift, right after the doors all the way along the walls across the back corridor and along the walls to the end.

 

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Last Updated: 6/27/22