Library Tidbits
Calling All Numbers
Resource Categories
Anatomy of a Book
@ Your Library
100
The name of our automated library system -- it has the same name as a type of orange.
What is Mandarin?
100
The number of categories in the Dewey Decimal System of Classification.
What is 10?
100
Books that are true.
What is nonfiction?
100
Look at this list in the back of the book to find specific information and page numbers.
What is an index?
100
The abbreviation "www".
What is World Wide Web?
200
The simple search in the Mandarin catalogue allows three types of searches -- author, title, and ____.
What is anywhere or keyword?
200
Sports books are located in the ___'s.
What is 700's?
200
A multi-volume reference collection with good information about everything.
What is an encyclopedia?
200
The outside of a book.
What is the cover?
200
Students can find reliable online information by clicking on this link from the Regina Catholic Schools Learning Village homepage.
What is Resources Online?
300
The length of time you can borrow a novel from the library.
What is 2 weeks?
300
The call number category that contains books about leopards. [100's; 300's; 500's; 600's]
What is 500's?
300
A book containing synonyms of words or words that have similar meanings.
What is a thesaurus?
300
List of chapters at the beginning of a book.
What is the table of contents?
300
Infotrac is a _____ of reliable information containing newspaper and magazine articles, e-books, encyclpedia articles, and other information. [Magazine; Book; Database; Computer Program]
What is a database?
400
Library books that are not returned on time.
What is overdue?
400
Easy books and fiction books are arranged in alphabetical order by the title. True OR False
What is false? (They are arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name.)
400
The Cat in the Hat, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Twilight -- books like these are made up.
What is fiction?
400
J.K. Rowlings, Gordan Korman, Dr. Seuss
Who are authors?
400
The URL of a website is the ____. [Call number; Link to the contents; Language the page is written in; Web address]
What is the web address?
500
Your favourite teacher-librarian.
What is "Mrs. Markowicz-Troy"?
500
The call number for nonfiction books begins with this.
What are numbers?
500
A book with lattitudes and longitudes.
What is an atlas?
500
The date that tells you when a book was published.
What is the copyright date?
500
The beginning of a web address begins with "hypertext transfer protocal."
What is http?
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