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Locating Library Resources

The School Library Collection
Just browsing? - You can browse our Oliver Library Catalogue. No log in required

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Circulation Kiosk 
You can come into the school library and use the Oliver OPAC Circulation Kiosk to find resources. The kiosk is located in the centre of the library and the screen looks like the Oliver home screen above.
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Browsing the shelves
You can search for resources by browsing the shelves.
Our Fiction section are arranged by GENRE and then by author's last name. Our Genres include: Adventure, Australian Stories, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Horror, Humour, Mystery, Romance, Sport, Supernatural, Teen Fiction and War, amongst others.
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You will see that our Non-Fiction resources, like many libraries are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Dewey groups these books by their subject content.


Dewey Decimal Classification. See the slideshow below to see how Dewey works and how resources are arranged.


Dewey Decimal Classification for Kids from MsCCostello
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Virtual Library last updated 8 October 2019
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