Tech Terms
Reference Resources
Library Lingo
Searching Destiny
Elementary Lit.
100
The indicator that shows where your mouse is currently active
What is the cursor?
100
A book of maps
What is an atlas ?
100
The label that the library computer scans for circulation of books.
What is a barcode?
100
the kind of search you perform when you want a general search of everything.
What is Keyword search?
100
ALAs award for the best American illustrator of the year
What is the Caldecott Award?
200
This is where you type the URL of a website
What is the address line?
200
Pronunciation, word origin and spelling
What can you find in a dictionary?
200
Literature that is not folklore, but has unrealistic settings, characters or events.
What is fantasy
200
written as "0 of 2" or something similar to show if a book is checked out.
What is Availability?
200
ALAs award for the best children's book author of the year.
What is the Newbery award?
300
A program that allows you to search the web.
What is a search engine?
300
The easiest book to find synonyms in
What is a thesaurus?
300
The only books that do not use the author's name to organize them on the shelves.
What are biographies?
300
you perform this search when you want to look only in the topics of the book.
What is subject search?
300
A yearly contest to select the book most popular with young PA readers
What is PYRCA or Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice award.
400
What you call a set of electronically stored commands for a computer
What is software?
400
Books that have basic information about everything in general.
What are encyclopedias?
400
The system used to organize our library
What is the Dewey Decimal System
400
Use this when you are unsure of the spelling of the word you are looking for.
What is Browse?
400
A yearly event where teams of readers compete to answer questions on 45 books.
What is Reading Olympics?
500
Computer equipment in physical space rather than digital space.
What is computer hardware?
500
A book published yearly with significant information and statistics in it.
What is an almanac?
500
The "address" of the book, indicating where it belongs on the shelf.
What is the call number?
500
Another way to search the library catalog
What is Destiny Quest?
500
Michael Buckley's series of books involving fairy tale characters.
What is the Sisters Grimm?
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