Shelf Marker Mastery
True or False: A shelf marker is a sword you can use to battle your classmates in the aisles.
What is False?
What should you always keep away from your library books so the pages don’t get sticky or ruined?
What are food and drinks? (** Keep water bottles in side pockets of backpacks, away from books!)
What is the first thing you should do when it's time to check out books?
What is grab a shelf marker?
What is a call number?
It is the sticker in the spine of a book that tells you where the book's home is on the shelf.
Expectations for the reading rug?
What is walk to our assigned spots, sit criss cross, mermaid or mountain, hands on legs?
When you pull a book off the shelf to look at it, where should your shelf marker go?
What is right next to the book (in the empty spot where the book was)?
If a page in your library book accidentally gets torn, what should you do?
What is bring it to the librarian to fix with special library tape? (Never try to fix it at home with regular tape!)
What is the very first thing you do when you walk into the library on library day?
What is take your library books out of the bag, return your old library books to the book return shelf, place the bag on Mrs. Whitakers desk, and sit quietly at your assigned spot at the tables?
What is the expectation for coming in to the library?
Walk in voice level zero, take your books out of the bag, put books on the return cart, and sit quietly at their assigned table spots.
What is the main job of a shelf marker?
What is to hold the spot so you know exactly where to put the book back if you don't want it?
Where is the safest place to keep your library book when you are at home and not reading it?
What is in your backpack (or a designated spot like a desk or nightstand away from pets and younger siblings)?
How should your body move when walking through the library shelves?
What is walking slowly and carefully (no running or pushing)?
When you have the book you want to check out, where should you go?
What is to the next available dot on the floor.
Demonstrate or describe how to properly pull a book off the shelf.
What is sliding your shelf marker in next to the book, then grabbing the middle of the spine (not pulling down on the top edge)?
What should you use to mark your place in a book instead of folding down the corner of a page (dog-earing)?
What is a bookmark?
If you pick up a book, decide you don't want it, but forgot where you got it (or didn't use a shelf marker), where should you place it?
What is on the top of the shelf? (Never shove it into a random spot on a shelf!)
When are you allowed to come to the library?
What is anytime your teacher says(Please bring your book to return), one morning / week, and of course when you have a scheduled day in the library.
What should you do with your shelf marker when you are finished choosing your books and ready to check out?
What is put it back in the shelf marker bucket on Mrs. Whitaker's desk?
Name two "book enemies" that can permanently damage a library book.
What are water/rain, pets (dogs/cats), young toddlers, food, dirty hands, or crayons/markers?
(**Accept any two)
What two things do you need at the checkout counter when you are ready to check out?
What is the book you want to borrow book and last name.
What voice levels should we use in the library?
Level zero when you are coming in, and when the teacher or someone who has permission is talking, and when you are waiting to leave. Level 1 when you are checking out books