The Life Of

Libraries
By Isabelle Levine
Independent Research
Centennial High School
Let's do a quick poll!
Raise your hand if you have read a book in the last
month.
Raise your hand if you have gone to the CHS media
center.
Raise your hand if you have gone to a public
library.
Background
❖ Great Library Of Alexandria in Egypt formed by King Ptolemy around 300 BCE

❖ Originally, libraries were not what they are today, instead they were full of leather bound pages, and

information was kept in scrolls.

❖ Great Library in Alexandria

➢ Destroyed by a fire in the Roman Period

Background
❖ Pachomius established a monastery, and insisted literacy among his monks. Now, when Christianity

spread, monasteries, and libraries within them spread as well

❖ New York Public Library

➢ For everyone not just the wealthy

So, what’s the problem?
Libraries are losing popularity, fast.
Thesis and Hypothesis
Thesis: Hypothesis:

Libraries can continue to be a place of learning if If participants do not go to libraries, then they
they update their technology, add more common would if the libraries were improved?
and/or gathering space, and keep their stacks of
books in either physical form or digital form to
keep the integrity of libraries, and keep their
purpose the same: learning and growth for all.
Synthesis Paper
❖ Better technology
❖ More updated spaces for different purposes
❖ Keeping the books
❖ Retain the view and purpose of a library: learning and
growth for all
Data Collection
Questionnaire

❖ How much they, the students, use the library, school or

public
❖ What changes they would like to see
❖ And a general viewpoint, how they see libraries.
Alright everyone! Get up! Out of your
seats and standing up!
Where is Fiction?
Where is Nonfiction?
Where is the circulation desk?
Where would you go to print something
out?
Where is the return book slot?
Where are bibliographies shelved?
How to find a book using the Dewey Decimal System
For Example, a book with the Dewey Decimal Number of 135.56 JAC

1. Go the 100 section

2. Find 135
3. Then look for the 135.5’s
4. Then continue going left to find 135.56
5. Then, in the 135.56, the books are alphabetical, if there is more than one.
6. Find the J’s, 135.56 JAC will be in there
Now! Time for a group activity.
The Groups are . . . .
Group 1: Abby, McKenna, Cassie, Min Ah, Lauren W.

Group 2: David, Peyton, Showvik, JT, Suraj

Group 3: Aliya, Bo, Deepa, Lauren S., Jackie, Maria

Group 4: Eric, Tausif, Dhruv, Josh, Makana

Now, off! Go find your books!