Library Vocabulary
Checking them out
When you are in the library you should behave in this way
Talk quietly, walk to find your books, listen to the librarian
Name the fiction genre that focuses on a historical time and place with fictional characters.
Historical Fiction
Name one database that the library subscribes to for digital research?
Word Book Encyclopedia or World Almanac
What do you call it when a person copies from a source word for word and claims it's their own ideas?
Plagarism
If you have a library book out for longer than the due date, the book is
Overdue
True or False, Libraries contain both digital and print information
TRUE
What do we call a book that is about someone, written by that same person?
Auto-biography
Name a FREE encyclopedia that you can access on the internet, that the library DOES NOT subscribe to.
Encyclopedia Britannica
How can you avoid plagiarism when you are writing a paper?
Take notes from the source and put them in your own words.
If you want to keep a library book for longer than the original due date, you want to
Renew the book
How can you request a book that you want, that is not in the library?
Place a hold on it - either through your account or via the librarian.
What do we call the story books with lots of illustrations that Mrs. Wilson reads aloud to K-3 graders each week?
Picture books
What do you call the words that you use, to look up your topic for a research paper either in a book or online or in a database?
Keywords
False
The place you look to check if the library owns a book or if a book is checked out.
The library catalog
What should you do with books that are checked out to you, but that you decide you don't want and why?
Give them to Mrs. Wilson - because they are still attached to your account and need to be checked in.
What is the name of the book award that is given to the best picture book every year?
The Caldecott Award
What do you call the page at the end of your research paper that lists the teacher the sources you used for your paper?
Works Cited Page or Bibliography
Name the term that means a publisher owns a piece of work.
Copyright
Nonfiction books are organized using:
The Dewey Decimal System
What is the purpose of the circulation desk in a library?
To checkout and check in books. Circulation means rotating the books in and out of the library.
What is the name of the award that is given to the best chapter book written for children, every year?
What do we call a source that was made at the time a certain event happened.
Primary Source
What format/style do we use in middle school and high school to cite our papers?
MLA