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If this is the first time you our visiting the blog, welcome. My name is Julie Greller, and I'm a media specialist for grades 7-12 in a New Jersey public school. I'm always trying to find great free resources for K-12 teachers, and keep an especially large collection for my fellow school-librarians/media specialist. (Check out the tab at the top) Below you will find a list of the top ten posts I have made since I started the blog here three years ago. Feel free to drop me an email if you are looking for specific resources you don't see here. My email is cybrarian77 AT gmail DOT com.


1. 39 Sites For Using iPad in the Classroom

2. 35 Social Networking Programs Other Than Facebook and Twitter

3. 10 Places to Find Back to School Templates

4. 64 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information

5. 10 Resources for Book Report Templates

6. 24 Places to Find Bulletin Board Display Ideas

7. Why Not Use Political Cartoons in Your Teaching? Here Are 15 Places to Find Them

8. Thousands of Science Fair Project Ideas! Find Them on These 25 Web Sites

9. 44 Things That Are All About Dewey (The Dewey Decimal System, That Is)

10. Let's Teach Our Children About Copyright: 15 Sites Which Can Assist You

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UPDATED: Is Dewey Done? See What These 26 Sites Have to Say and Then Decide

Ever since bookstores have been selling books, they have shelved them by subject area. When patrons go to any subject section, they can usually find the book they are looking for by the last name of the author. This includes fiction and nonfiction books. Those of us who were taught to use the Dewey Decimal System are used to using decimals for the ten nonfiction sections from 000-999. When a student asks me to find a particular book, all I need is the call number to get to the exact location of that book. How would the bookstore model do in a school library? Some elementary school librarians like the idea because nonfiction books could be easier for young kids to locate. Judge for yourself.

Adams County Libraries Shelving Dewey- Denver, Colorado school libraries

Are the Dewey Decimal System's Days Numbered?- interesting article


The Demise of the Dewey Decimal System- Canadian librarian has incorporated the bookstore model in her school library

Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don't- New York Times article about the 15-branch Maricopa County Library District in Arizona. Here's a link to the NPR broadcast about the changes.

Dewey Decimal, Redone

The Dewey Dilemma- from the Library Journal

Dewey's Not Dead

Ditching Dewey from Tiffany Whitehead

Ditching Dewey: Hot Topic in Hartford | AASL- article from School Library Journal


Ditching Dewey: Making the Move- blog post from Tiffany Whitehead, The Mighty Little Librarian

Ditching Dewey...and Other Cool Improvements Coming to the Library

Do We Dewey?-New York Times article from 2008

Has the Dewey Decimal system Finally Outlived its Usefulness?- blog post by librarian Roger Green

Red Hawk Elementary Scraps Dewey Decimal System  for Bookstore Model

Reorganizing Non-Fiction: A Dewey Hybrid Model- from the Official Blog of the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC)

Saying Goodbye to the Dewey Decimal System- article about five Albany public libraries

So We Ditched Dewey...What Comes Next For Our Books and Shelves?- from teacher-librarian Shannon McClintock Miller

Students Not Fazed By Dewey-less Library- Gilbert, AZ

Three Benefits of the Dewey Decimal System- from eHow

What's So Great About Dewey? 

Why I Won't Ditch Dewey- from elementary librarian Jocelyn Sams

Will 21st Century Libraries Use the Dewey Decimal System?

Will Dewey Still Do?- Massachusetts librarian airs her opinion about Dewey

Who's Killing the Dewey Decimal System?- article about the Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin, IL

Would Your Elementary Library Work Better if You Scrapped the Dewey Decimal System?- from School Library Monthly's blog

44 Things That Are All About Dewey (The Dewey Decimal System, That Is)

GAMES AND QUIZZES
Basic Dewey Decimal

Becoming Familiar With Dewey- print a certificate when you are done

Can You Do the Dewey?

Deciphering the Dewey Decimal System- short matching quiz on the ten categories

Dewey and the Alien

Dewey Call Numbers-quiz

The Dewey Challenge

Dewey Decimal Crossword Puzzle

Dewey Decimal Hangman

DDS- timed game

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (easy)

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (medium)

Dewey Decimal System- match books with their Dewey number (hard)

Dewey Decimal Interactive Quiz

Do the Dewey

Do We Really Know Dewey?

Doin' Dewey with Mr. B

Flood in the Library- game for young kids from PBS

Fun Trivia: Dewey Decimal System

Kids Click for Dewey

Let's Do Dewey

Let's Do the DDC- OCLC's interactive site

Library Skills Game

Match the Author With the Correct Call Number

Order in the Library- excellent shelving game which has many levels of play; can be used for any age level

Quiz Me

Study Stack- matching game

LESSON PLANS
Dewey Bingo- MS Publisher document

The Dewey Decimal Classification System- written by Jean Halsey

Dewey Decimal Game 2- for 4th graders

The Dewey Directory- download a copy for your library

The Dewey Rap- for 4th graders

The Dewey Rap Music- .wav file

Free Presentations in PowerPoint Format

Huey and Louie Meet Dewey- for grades 3-5, 6-8

Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

WEB QUESTS
The Book Disaster- for 5th graders

Dewey Decimal Web Quest

DeweyWorld- grades 4-6

Help! I am Locked in the Library- fro grades 4-6

Hunt For Dewey Decimal System

Vermont School Library Dewey Web Quest

What is a Call Number?- designed by 6th graders

Who Was Dewey?