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| Getting started | For general information, facts, and a survey of your country, use encyclopedias. They are on the 2nd floor and Kids' Place. Some check out for one week.
| Books to check | out in Kids' Place and 4th floor The Online Catalog will help you find more information and often includes useful subheadings such as "description and travel," Asocial life and customs," and "history," which appear after the country name. Call numbers are the same for books in Kids' Place, reference, and circulating collections.
|  Example: Search by Subject = "AUSTRALIA--Description and travel"
Internet | 2nd floor, Kids' Place, or from home
Access Sacramento Public Library's home page at www.saclib.org. Select Kids & Teens on the main page. Next, choose Kids or Teens once the Kids' Place home page appears. Finally, click on the Homework link where you will find links for country reports.
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Magazines, | Microfilm and Federal Documents, 3rd floor
Infotrac, in Kids' Place and 3rd floor, indexes magazine articles. Select General Reference Center from the Infotrac database menu. | FED D 101.22:550 Area handbook series
FED qS 1.123: Background notes
Reference Document area: Countries of the World. U.S. government documents in binders filed by region
FED qPrEx 3.15: The World factbook
Reference Books | 2nd floor, for library use or photocopy, unless otherwise noted Tip: For each source used, write down author, title, date, publisher, and other information required for your bibliography
| R910.202 C886 Craighead's international business, travel, an relocation guide to...countries
RJ390 C968 Culturgrams (in Kids' Place)
R310 E89 The Europa world yearbook
RJ929.92 F5742 Flags of the world (in Kids' Place)
RJ912 M297 Maps on File (in Kids' Place)
R310 S783 The Statesman's yearbook
RJ031 W9272 The World Book encyclopedia of people and places (in Kids' Place)
R305.8003 W927 Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life
R910.3 W927 Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations
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| General Dewey Call Numbers for Countries |
| 958.1 Afghanistan
949.65 Albania 965 Algeria 982 Argentina 994 Australia 943.6 Austria 954.92 Bangladesh 949.3 Belgium 972.82 Belize 972.99 Bermuda 954.96 Bhutan 984 Bolivia 968.1 Botswana 981 Brazil 959.5 Brunei 949.77 Bulgaria 966.25 Burkina Faso 959.1 Myanmar 959.6 Cambodia 967.11 Cameroon 971 Canada 967.43 Chad 983 Chile 951 China 986.1 Colombia 972.86 Costa Rica 972.91 Cuba 943.7 Czech Republic 948.9 Denmark 972.93 Dominican Republic 986.6 Ecuador 962 Egypt 972.84 El Salvador 942 England 963 Ethiopia 947.1 Finland 944 France |
943 Germany
966.7 Ghana 949.5 Greece 998 Greenland 972.81 Guatemala 972.94 Haiti 972.83 Honduras 951.25 Hong Kong 943.9 Hungary 949.12 Iceland 954 India 991 Indonesia 955 Iran 956.7 Iraq 941.5 Ireland 956.94 Israel 945 Italy 972.92 Jamaica 952 Japan 956.9 Jordan 967.62 Kenya 951.9 Korea 953 Kuwait 959.4 Laos 956.92 Lebanon 966.6 Liberia 961.2 Libya 969.1 Madagascar 959.5 Malaysia 972 Mexico 964 Morocco 967.9 Mozambique 954.96 Nepal 949.2 The Netherlands 993.1 New Zealand 966.9 Nigeria |
941.5 Northern Ireland
948.1 Norway 954.9 Pakistan 972.87 Panama 989.2 Paraguay 985 Peru 959.9 Philippines 943.8 Poland 946.9 Portugal 972.95 Puerto Rico 949.8 Romania 947 Russia (and former Soviet Republics) 967 Rwanda 953.8 Saudi Arabia 941 Scotland 959.5 Singapore 967.73 Somalia 968 South Africa 946 Spain 962.4 Sudan 948.5 Sweden 949.4 Switzerland 956.9 Syria 951.24 Taiwan 959.3 Thailand 956.1 Turkey 987 Venezuela 959.7 Vietnam 949.7 Yugoslavia 967.51 Congo 968.94 Zambia 968.91 Zimbabwe |
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