Library Workers
This is the general title for the person in charge of the school library who has an advanced degree in library science.
What is a librarian?
This is the name of the online catalog patrons use to search for books, check availability, and see what's in the library's collection.
What is Destiny Discover?
This is the name of the app patrons use to access ebooks and audiobooks provided by the school library.
What is Sora?
This is the number of books you are allowed to check out at one time.
What is five?
This is the "address" printed on a book's spine label that tells you exactly where it lives on the shelf.
What is a call number?
Besides checking out books, this is one other job library staff regularly do.
What is... shelving? processing books? creating displays? supervising students?
Doing this provides more information and access.
What is logging in?
This is what you use to log into Sora.
What is Southern Westchester BOCES and Scarsdale Middle School?
This is the length of a standard checkout period before a book is due.
What is three weeks?
Fiction books are organized by this and shelved in this order.
What is genre and alphabetical by the author's last name?
If you have a question about a book and Ms. Frazin is busy, this staff member can often help you too.
Who is... Mrs. Capulli? Ms. Perry? Ms. Weis?
This tells you whether a specific book is currently on the shelf, checked out or available through Sora.
What is the icon in the upper left of each book?
This is what happens to a Sora book when your checkout period ends — no trip to the library required.
What is automatically returns?
These three things are what a student should do when visting the library before school, at lunch and/or after school.
What is sign-in, greet a library worker, and take a stack of cups?
This is the name of the numbered classification system used to organize nonfiction books by subject.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
This is the best way to reach Ms. Frazin outside of library hours.
What is email?
This is how you can check out a book from the convenience of your iPad.
What is placing a hold?
Name one feature Sora offers that a physical book can't.
What is... read-aloud? adjustable text size? adjustable font? provide definitions? digital highlighting? digital annotation?
This is what each color of cup represents.
What is green means good to go, yellow means make a change, and red mean try again tomorrow?
Three sections of the library - graphic, manga, and short stories - are organized by this.
What is format?