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You can now use our library computer from home! Check how many books you have out on loan and renew them. You can even search to see if we have a book you want to read or reserve a book someone else has on loan.

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From the Library home page you can read about our Author of the Month, see what our Recommended Reads are and look at new titles we have in the LRC.

New Titles Available from the LRC

September 2011 - Titles

March 2011 - Titles

November 2010 - Titles

September 2010 - Titles

August 2010 - Titles 1

August 2010 - Titles 2

August 2010 - Titles 3

To look at your borrower record you must click on OPAC and login. Your username is the same as your school username i.e. 07smithj or 02js05 and the password is “password”. You can change this when you log in.

At the OPAC search screen you can look for a book by typing the title in the search box. Click in the tickbox and you can send a request to the LRC.

Students in Years 7, 8, & 9 can borrow up to 3 books.
Students in Years 10 & 11 can borrow up to 4 books.
Students in sixth form can borrow up to 6 books.

All loans are for 2 weeks, if students need books for longer they need to renew them at the LRC desk. Staff can also reserve books for students (such as Snakehead and Kiss)

There are 3 types of books in the LRC:

Fiction/Story
Non-fiction/Information
Reference

Fiction/Story

These are organised in alphabetical (A-Z) order by the author’s surname. The first 3 letters of the surname is shown on the spine or side of the book so you can find what you are looking for more quickly and easily.

Non-fiction/Information

These books can be used to help with homework, coursework and revision. They are shelved in number order called the Dewey Decimal Classification System or Dewey for short. This number order is shown over the page. These books also have a coloured sticker on the spine.

Dewey Classification and the colour code used in the LRC

Dewey Classification is used in nearly all libraries, here the books are put in numeric order, and the numbers start at 001 and run to 999.

To make things easier we also use coloured stickers for each different subject area at Childwall LRC.

Number	Subject	Colour
001 - 099	I.T. & General Reference	white
100 - 199	Psychology & Philosophy	white
200 - 299	Religion	pale blue
300 - 399	Social Sciences	green
400 - 499	Language	blue
500 - 599	Science including Maths	cream
600 - 699	Technology including Business	orange
700 - 799	Arts	yellow
800 - 899	Literature & Poetry	dark blue
900 - 999	History & Geography	red