Research
Dewey Decimal
Reference
Parts of a Book
Books/Authors
100
This is required to begin searching for information.
What is a search/research question?
100
Books from here do not usually circulate.
What is the reference section?
100
Author of the Kane Chronicles and The Lightening Thief series.
Who is Rick Riordan?
200
These are taken from the question and entered into search fields.
What is/are a keyword(s)?
200
Part of the dictionary containing the word, definition and other information.
What is an entry?
200
Use this to know the subject(s) of the chapters in a book.
What is the table of contents?
200
Wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who and The Cat in the Hat to list a few...
Who is Dr. Seuss?
300
Useful when beginning a search, the information may not be reliable here.
What is Wikipedia?
300
Creator of the classification system for books in the library.
Who is Melvil Dewey?
300
Information statistics and facts usually about a country, continent or area.
What is an atlas?
300
A dictionary of words and the meanings specifically in one book.
What is the glossary?
400
According to the Dewey Decimal Rap and Dewey Decimal Classification System, this is the call number for shark books.
What is 597.3?
400
Located on the pages side of an almanac, useful to locate information.
What is the thumb index?
400
Title, author, publisher and place of publication are located here.
What is the title page?
400
This symbol folllowed by a year represents this.
What is copyright date?
500
iConn for example.
What is a database?
500
Sometimes included in a dictionary entry, this tells the origin of a word.
What is the etymology of a word?
500
Use this to locate specific subjects, usually found in the back of a book.
What is the index?
500
Honor given to books read and voted on by students and library users in state of Connecticut.
What is the Nutmeg award?
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