At the Desk
The place to look for full-sized sheets of scratch paper to give out to library users.
What is the white scratch paper tray located on the table behind the backup desk workstation?
The first place to look when trying to determine what your next priority to work on should be.
What is the Daily Tasks Sheet/Student Projects Tray behind the desk?
Library space where flyers and informational handouts from both campus and broader community events may be posted.
What is the Community Bulletin Board on the first floor?
The mascots of UW Bothell and Cascadia College.
Who are Holly the Husky (UWB) and Kody the Kodiak (Cascadia College)?
A library classification system uses numerical subject groupings, with ten main classes that are further subdivided by using decimal points.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
The maximum number of items that a UW Libraries user can check out at a time.
What is 300 items?
The Alma mode that should be used in most circulation situations, other than returning items.
What is Scan in Items mode?
Library spaces where joining an online class that requires speaking is permitted.
What are Zoom pods (1st floor), study rooms (3rd floor), and open seating areas on the 1st and 2nd floors?
A campus-wide festival with inflatables, make-and-takes, music, and a petting zoo, hosted by CEB in collaboration with Cascadia College.
What is Springfest?
This Egyptian library was one of the largest and most well-known libraries in the ancient world, until it was burned down twice by Romans.
What was the Great Library of Alexandria?
The process of helping a user find out if an item is on Course Reserve for their class.
What is...
1. Ask them if the item is on Reserve (they can check their syllabus if unsure).
2. Look it up in the Courses Reserves tab on the Library website by title, instructor's name, or course code.
3.If the item is in Open Reserves, write down the call number and direct them to it; if on Closed Reserve, grab it for them; if not on Reserve, try a general catalog search and look in the Reserves spreadsheets.
The procedure for verifying a user's identity over the phone.
What is...
1. Ask for their student or employee ID number to look them up in Alma. Confirm their name if needed.
2. In their library account, go to the Contact Information tab and ask them to verify a secondary piece of contact information (ex: phone number or mailing address).
The full list of classroom spaces in the Library building complex (LB1, LB2, and LBA).
What are...
UWB: LB1-203 (Curriculum Lab).
Cascadia: LB1-215, LB1-221, LBA-003.
Library: LB1-220, LB1-222.
A large, customizable indoor event space featuring black-out blinds and a view of the campus wetlands.
What is the North Creek Events Center?
The founder of the United States' first lending library, in 1731.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The full list of collection locations at the UWB/CC Library.
What are...
1st floor: Careers, ELL, Equipment, Graphic Novels, Laptops, Life Skills, New Books, Recreational Reading, Reserves, Video Games, Writing.
3rd floor: Stacks, Periodicals, Oversize, Book Arts, Campus Publications.
The procedure for "renewing" a Reserve item for a library user.
What is...
1. Open their library account and go to the Returns tab.
2. Take a quick look through the item to check for damage. If there isn't any, scan it back in. If there is, do not check it in!
3. Click on the Loans tab in the user's account and scan the item again to loan it back out.
4. Write the new due date on the checkout slip and verbally inform the user.
The full list of study rooms in the Library.
What are..
LB1: 302, 303, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325.
LB2: 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 318.
LBA: 304, 305, 306, 307.
All dining options currently available on the UWB/CC campus.
What are...
Inside the Terrace Dining Pavilion: Urban Kitchen + Market Bar, The Clean Plate, Food Lab, The Drop.
Other options: Gold Brew, The Market, Quad Market, Village Café, edible plants in the Food Forest.
The oldest library ever discovered, estimated to have been founded in 2500 BCE.
What was the Royal Library of Elba, located in modern Syria?
All types of equipment that can be checked out at the Circulation Desk.
What are... TI-30X scientific and TI-83+ and 84+ graphing calculators, Apple and Dell USB-C chargers, headphones w/mic, regular, ergonomic, and high-contrast keyboards, lapboard, regular and trackball mouse, multi-user headphone adapters, noise-reducing earmuffs, pocket-hearing loop, portable Blu-ray/DVD players, USB-C headphone jack adapters.
The procedure to follow when a user claims to have returned an item that is still showing up on their library account.
What is...
1. Look up the user's account and verify that the item is still there.
2. Fill out the Claimed Returned form on Staffweb with as much information about the item/situation as possible.
3. Let the user know that staff will search for the item and follow up with them soon.
All units or departments that have space in the Library building complex (LB1, LB2, and LBA).
What are...
Library units: Circulation, Technology Services, Librarians, Collections, Reserves, Library Administration/Leadership, Digital Scholarship.
Others: UWB-IT, Office of Teaching and Learning/Sponsored Research, Campus Safety, Kodiak Cave, Cascadia English Language Learning.
The historical context of the Chase and Truly Houses, and how they are used today.
What is...
Chase House: Named for Dr. Reuben Chase, who was Bothell’s first doctor and lived in the Chase House in the late 1880s. He also used it as his office and the city’s first hospital. Currently used by the UWB/CC Groundskeeping Team.
Truly House: Named for the Boone/Truly Family, who were cattle ranchers on this land in the early 1900s, with 450 head of beef cattle at its peak. The family resided in the Truly House and raised their family on the land. Currently used by staff in the Office of Connected Learning.
The length of time that elapsed prior to the most overdue book in recorded history being returned, after originally being checked out to Colonel Robert Walpole.
What is 288 years?
Estimated to have been checked out in 1668, returned to Sidney Sussex College in 1956.