| Getting started | For general information, facts, and a survey of your state, use encyclopedias found on the 2nd floor and Kids' Place. Some check out for one week.
Use the Online Catalog to find more materials on your state.  Example: Search by Subject = "ALASKA"Some useful subheadings: "Alaska--description and travel" "Alaska--guidebooks" "Alaska--history" "Alaska--juvenile literature" "Alaska--social life and customs" Call numbers starting with J or RJ are in Kids= Place. General state call numbers are listed on the back of this sheet. 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 Kid=s Place appears. Finally, click on the Homework link where you will find links for state reports.
| Magazines | Kids' Place and 3rd floor Infotrac (TM) indexes magazine articles. Use OneFile from the menu to search by state name.Readers' guide to periodical literature is a paper index on 3rd floor.
Pamphlet file in Kids' Place
| State maps & brochures filed by state name.
| Reference Books
| Tip:Write down the full bibliographic information for each source used. Include author, title, publisher, date, pages. The following reference books are in Kids' Place reference unless otherwise noted. | RJ973 K16 Facts about the statesRJ929.92 F5742 Flags of the worldRJ973.03 J95 Junior Worldmark encyclopedia of the statesRJ912 N2772 National Geographic world atlas for young explorersRJ929.92 S539 State names, seals, flags, and symbolsRJ310 W92 World almanac and book of factsR973 W927 Worldmark encyclopedia of the states (2nd floor)
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General Dewey Call Numbers for U. S. States
These call numbers will locate state books throughout the library. In Kids' Place, books have a J before the call number. Adult books on the 4th floor have no J before the number. |
976.1 Alabama 979.8 Alaska 979.1 Arizona 976.7 Arkansas 979.4 California 978.8 Colorado 974.6 Connecticut 975.1 Delaware 975.9 Florida 975.8 Georgia 996.9 Hawaii 979.6 Idaho 977.3 Illinois 977.2 Indiana 977.7 Iowa 978.1 Kansas 976.9 Kentucky 976.3 Louisiana 974.1 Maine 975.2 Maryland 974.4 Massachusetts 977.4 Michigan 977.6 Minnesota 976.2 Mississippi 977.8 Missouri 978.6 Montana | 978.2 Nebraska
979.3 Nevada 974.2 New Hampshire 974.9 New Jersey 978.9 New Mexico 974.7 New York 975.6 North Carolina 978.4 North Dakota 977.1 Ohio 976.6 Oklahoma 979.5 Oregon 974.8 Pennsylvania 974.5 Rhode Island 975.7 South Carolina 978.3 South Dakota 976.8 Tennessee 976.4 Texas 979.2 Utah 974.3 Vermont 975.5 Virginia 979.7 Washington 975.3 Washington, D.C. 975.4 West Virginia 977.5 Wisconsin 978.7 Wyoming |
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