Why does the Youth Collection use a different call number system than the rest of the library?
The call numbers for all items in the Youth Collection begin with the letter “Y” to indicate location there. The Youth Collection is arranged in much the same way that school library media centers are arranged, providing education students with the opportunity to become familiar with the system they will encounter on the job. The classification plan used by school and public libraries is called the Dewey Decimal Classification System. In it, numbers 001 to 999 represent subject areas.
