Christ Church Library

 

                                        Melvil Dewey is Your Friend

                                                                 If you have browsed the audio/video shelves or the                                                                  children’s collection lately, you might have noticed                                                                    labels with Dewey Decimal numbers on them. The                                                                    Dewey Decimal System is a time-honored way to categorize  library materials. Because Dewey assigns specific numbers to materials based on subject matter, similar materials end up next to each other on the shelves. The Library has always used the Dewey system for its general non-fiction collection, but the children’s books and main video collections were organized according to a color coding system. The old system became unwieldy as the collections grew, until it became difficult to locate materials. By giving each video or children’s book a Dewey number, all the children’s books on Noah’s Ark, for example, or all the videos on the life of Christ will be shelved alongside each other. The exceptions? Fiction books (categorized as Fic), biographies (B) and Children’s videos, which will probably be shelved by series. So, yes, all the Veggie Tales will still be together.

New Materials

With the end of the year, the Library has undertaken to replace some books lost or not returned in the last several months. We have also added a few new books by authors popular with Library patrons. These new materials will reside for the next month or two on the “New Books” shelf of the blue book cart just inside the door. A partial list is below; see the complete listing online: www.ccum.net/library.

· Liz Curtis Higgs, Grace in Thine Eyes: A new historical novel from CCUM’s own Liz Curtis Higgs.

· Francine Rivers, Unshaken (The story of Ruth) and Unspoken (The story of Bathsheba): Two novellas about Biblical women recommended by CCUM’s Susan Williams.

· Nancy L. Mace and Peter V. Rabins, The 36-Hour Day (4th edition):  The most recent edition of the definitive guide for family members caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and memory loss.

· Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: For the Environmental Stewardship Collection. Our previous copy got checked out and moved to Tennessee.

· Lee Strobel, The Case for Christmas: Well-known investigator of religious questions, Strobel looks at the baby in the manger.

· Liz Curtis Higgs, Only Angels Can Wing It: An earlier book by Liz, but a good one. So good our previous copy never found its way back to the Library.

· Wanda Luttrell, Home on Stoney Creek: Part of a popular youth series set in Kentucky. The Library’s previous copy was damaged.

· Adventures in Odyssey:  The DVD collection. Three discs. 10 episodes. 20 years of animation. Awesome.

· Walter Brueggemann, The Message of the Psalms and Praying the Psalms: Two studies of the Psalms by one of the most esteemed Biblical scholars in the world.

 

100: Philosophy

200: Religion

300: Social Science