library quiz show for orientation

Library Quiz Show

Mrs. DixUpper School Library

2011

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?Books can be checked out for 10 days.

You actually get 14!!

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How many Dewey “hundreds” are there?

10

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All non-fiction books have a special organization system. What is it?

Numerically by subjectThis is the Dewey Decimal System!

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Name three things that you can do on the library website (not Edline).Get to research sites, make book

suggestions, make comments…Get book club news, watch book trailers, read our Twitter updates for news, look at library photos,

connect to the catalog, email Mrs. Dix, IM with Mrs. Dix…

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How can I get extra credit during library skills class?

Book Reviews!On the library catalog

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Who created the numbering system in the library?

Melvil Dewey, my hero!

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TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?This call number is for a non-fiction book: 832 DER.

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Library Express Days mean that…You need to come to the library for quick tasks like finding a book, renewing a book, returning a book,

paying a fine or checking Edline.

You should not be in the library longer than 10 minutes.

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Which DDC number would books about aliens be found?

000

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Where are the reference materials?

• along the back wall • by the circulation desk

• online databases

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When you print from the Internet, what must you do?

Copy and paste into Word.And please think about printing in

greyscale!

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What does OPAC stand for?

Online Public Access Catalog

In other words, it’s the library catalog!

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How can I find a book by Mike Lupica in the library catalog?

All of the above

None of the above

Look in the catalog by title search

Use a series search

Type in last name, first name and click “author”

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Match the genre to its call number:

FAN

BAT

F

OV

B

Biography

Fiction

Fantasy

Battles

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What is the call number for a biography about George Washington?

B WASHINGTON

REF WAS

F WAS

BIO WAS

B WAS

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Name four ways that you can search for a book in the catalog?

KATSKeywordAuthorTitle

Subject

You can also search by Series.

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Are non-fiction books shelved by author, title, keyword or subject?

Subject

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Title Page

Call Number

Encyclopedia

DDC

Fiction

Imaginative stories

Many volumes of information

A page at the beginning of a book

Numbers and letters on the spine label

A system to organize books

Match the term with the definition

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TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?Biographies are shelved by author’s last name.

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Mrs. DixUpper School Library

2011