Famous Library People
Library Vocab Words
Different Types of Fiction
GCU Lore
100

This person is the director of the GCU Library

Who is Nita Mailander?

100

A piece of research that has been published in a peer-reviewed academic or scientific journal.

What is an article?

100

This type of fiction tries to attempt to shock or frighten readers.

What is Horror?

100

602-639-7200 is the number students call when Halo isn’t working.

What is GCU technical support?

200

An influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the a very popular library classification system

Who is Melville Dewey?

200

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

What is an archive?

200

TThis type of fiction takes place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.

What is Fantasy?

200

GCU has this many distinct colleges.

What is 9 colleges?  

300

The founder of the Library of Congress.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

A way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source.

What is a citation?

300

This type of fiction typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology.

What is Science Fiction?

300

This place holds 7,000 seats.

What is GCU Arena?

400

This person is responsible for various authoritative cataloging tools, including LC Rule Interpretations, LC Classification schedules, LC Subject Headings, and other cataloging documentation.

Who is Barbara Tillett?

400

This works like a book address to help us locate it on the self.

What is a call number?

400

This type of fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains unsolved until the end of the story.

What is Mystery?

400

There are this many pools on campus for students to use.

What is 5 pools?

500

They are the current ALA president.

Who is Emily Drabinski?

500

An electronic collection of published works.

What is a database?

500

This type of fiction is a 20th-century writing style closely associated with monster stories and the grotesque, usually associated with the aesthetic of fear and haunting.

What is Gothic Fiction?

500

GCU has this many on campus food options.

What is 31?

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