The name of my subject librarian (give your department and the librarian's name)
What is _______?
100
The name of this database stands for "Journal Storage."
What is JSTOR?
100
What is the name of the MU Libraries' traditional online catalog?
What is MERLIN?
100
The non-library employees who works some hours in the library and can help your students with their writing
What are writing tutors?
100
The floor in Ellis Library in which Special Collections and Rare Books offices are housed
What is 4th floor
200
The first click from the library home page if you are looking for librarian-created and customized course guides?
What is Class Resources menu > Course Guides
200
The best technique to force Google as well as many library databases to find a set of words grouped together as a phrase
What is quotation marks
200
How long is the normal faculty lending period for MU Libraries books and government documents?
What is 4 months?
200
The main citation database the MU Libraries subscribes to
What is Scopus?
200
Of these subjects, the number of them that have their OWN library on the MU campus:
-Business
-Veterinary Medicine
-Journalism
-Engineering
What is 3?
300
Name 3 places where librarians can teach your students to find good research sources
What is online, in a library classroom, or in a campus classroom
300
First click from the home page if you want a good overview of library resources available to find information on a subject such as Sociology or Art History
What are Subject Guides (or: Research Guides)
300
What famous reference work does the MU Libraries subscribe to as an online book, that gives not only definitions but etymology of English words?
What is the Oxford English Dictionary?
300
Name one of the two citation management programs on which the MU Libraries offers introductory classes.
What is EndNote/Zotero?
300
The MU Libraries subscribes to approximately how many different databases? 6? 60? 600? 6000? 60,000?
What is 600?
400
Name the MU Libraries' TWO government documents librarians.
Who are Marie Concannon and Sandy Schiefer
400
The name of one of the databases MU provides in the field of Engineering (and how you'd find this out if you don't know)
What is Compendex, Materials Science Abstracts, etc.; go to databases by subject
400
The floor of Ellis Library on which you will find a book with the call number that begins with HQ76.2
What is 2nd floor east?
400
What is the name of MU's institutional repository AND name one type of writing you will find online there?
What is MOspace?
400
Number of classrooms in Ellis Library available for librarian-led workshops for your class or research group?
What is three
500
2 library services you will talk more with people in your department about in the next week
What are...(Take any good answer!)
500
The two newspapers that we have in full text all the way back to their beginnings through the Proquest Historical Newspapers database
What are the New York Times and the Chicago Defender?
500
The reason there are printed books we do not yet own that still have records in the library's online catalog
What is Demand Driven Acquisitions (or a good explanation)
500
The name of the library-sponsored contest where your undergraduate students can win a REAL $500 (show the website)
What is the Undergraduate Research Contest
500
The number closest to the annual cost to the 4-campus system of the Scopus database subscription?
$2000, $20,000, $200,000 or $2 million?