Parts of a Book
Library Sections
What & where is it?
By the Numbers
Library Lingo
100
This is the part of the book that you see when it is on the shelf.
What is the spine?
100
The two main sections in our library
What are fiction and nonfiction?
100
A special section for third through sixth graders at F.C. for higher vocabulary books that are the size of picture books
What is the short fiction section located at the end of the chapter book section on the fiction side of the library?
100
The length of time most things can be checked out from the F.C. library
What is two weeks?
100
The card that is used to mark a particular book's place on the library shelf while a student is browsing to find a book he/she might check out
What is a shelf marker?
200
This part of a book contains a dictionary of terms used in the book.
What is the glossary?
200
The section where the picture books are located
What is the E (for everybody) section?
200
The alphabetical listing of the information found in a particular book and the page numbers where the information can be found
What is an index?
200
The number of F.C. library items that can be checked out at a time
What is two (unless you are on a RO team or have a special assignment and then you can have three)?
200
If you want to keep a book checked out longer than the date marked on the date due slip you must do this
What is renew?
300
The number that is scanned into the computer when you check out a library item
What is the barcode?
300
The way the fiction books are arranged
What is alphabetically by the author's last name?
300
Maps and geographical information is found in this book
What is an atlas?
300
The length of time you cannot check out any one week items if you do not return them by the due date
What is one month?
300
The part of the book that helps protect it
What is the book jacket?
400
The number on the spine label of the book telling where the book will be located on the library shelf
What is the call number?
400
Nonfiction books are arranged this way
What is by the Dewey Decimal System?
400
Books that you can listen to either on CD or cassette tape
What are audiobooks located next to the circulation desk?
400
The number of days in a school year in PA
What is 180 days?
400
The place to search for information about a specific book and its location in our library
What is the online library catalog? https://ojrsd.follettdestiny.com/
500
A listing of chapters or topics in order as they appear in the book
What is the Table of Contents?
500
The section where books are arranged by the last name of the person the book is about
What is the biography section (92)?
500
Old stories that were originally told out loud and have been passed down through the ages
What are folktales which are located in the nonfiction section (398.2)?
500
The number of books that would have to be read by each of 15 Reading Olympics team members to cover the entire list of books for the competition
What is 3?
500
Four of the five ways to search the F.C. online library catalog
What are title, author, subject, keyword or series? (Need to give 4 of the 5)
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