General Guidelines

The Library Media Center seeks to maintain a collection that supports the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and to meet the diverse needs and interests of its patrons in the following general subject areas:

000 - Generalities, including bibliographies of core and elective subject areas, recent editions of encyclopedias and other general

reference works, computer handbooks, censorship materials and school librarianship practical manuals

100 - Philosophy and related disciplines including paranormal phenomena and arts, metaphysics, adolescent psychology, ethics, ancient,

medieval and modern Western philosophy, and Asian philosophy

200 - Religion, including natural religion, Christian denominations and sects, world religions and comparative religions

300 - Social Sciences, on statistics, political science with an emphasis on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, economic, law, social problems and

services, education, customs, etiquette and folklore

400 - Languages, including linguistics, dictionaries and grammars for English and other languages

500 - Pure Sciences in all physical and life sciences

600 - Technology, including computer science, medical sciences, engineering, agriculture, home economics and family living, chemical and

related technologies

700 -The Arts, including civic and landscape architecture, plastic arts, sculpture, drawing, decorative and minor arts, painting and paintings,

graphic arts, prints, photography and photographs, music and recreational and performing arts

800 - Literature including children's and young adult fiction, English and Anglo-Saxon literatures and literature in Spanish

900 - General Geography and History