Finding the Books Themselves

Jim Dan Hill Library

1. JDH Library's Catalog

• Use Guided Keyword Search
• For Fiction books, search:
  • Juvenile Fiction in the first line
  • Your topic in the second line (example: winter)
• For Nonfiction books, search:
  • Juvenile Literature in the first line
  • Your topic in the second line (example: Ojibwa)

2. Browse

• Fiction: Look through call number starting with PZ 7 to PZ 10 for fiction materials
• Nonfiction will be in the call number assigned to its subject

Other Libraries

1. Superior Public Library's Catalog
2. Duluth Public Library's Catalog
• Both have a separate children's collection
• Fiction is often shelved alphabetically by author's last name (of just by first letter of author's last name)
• Nonfiction will be in the call number assigned to its subject (Dewey Decimial Call Number)
• Types of books may make up separate collections (picture books, biographies, paperbacks, etc.)

Book Stores

1. Local Booksellers with Good Children's Collections:
   • Beecroft, Superior
   • Barnes and Noble, Duluth
   • Northern Lights, Duluth
   • The Bookstore in the Fitgers Complex, Duluth
   • Tales to Tell in the DeWitt-Seitz Building, Duluth
2. A Bit Far Afield, But Well Worth the Trip...
   • Red Balloon in St. Paul
   • Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis
3. Online
   • Amazon.com
   • Barnes and Noble