General
The loudest thing in the library.
What is the gate alarm?
Most of our collection is this Library of Congress letter category.
What is Q?
Most of our Dewey books are this number (in the hundreds).
What are the 500s?
She's the big boss of the Science Library.
Who is Eboni?
The most common inventory problem was this.
What are barcodes?
The top-secret storage library is found in this building.
What is Carnegie?
This is the smallest Science Library-specific Library of Congress section.
What are the QMs?
Dewey books are found in this area of the library.
What is moveable shelving?
The number of student employees at the Science Library.
What is 12?
324 of these were identified during inventory.
What are missing books?
The oldest book we have found in the Science Library (so far!) is from this decade.
What are the 1820s?
The QB section has books on this topic.
What is astronomy?
The first name of the founder of the Dewey Decimal System.
What is Melvil?
This student is currently studying abroad, but will be back in the fall!
Who is Sydney (Haddad)?
Jillian estimates over 6,500 books needed this treatment.
What is rebarcoding?
This movie inspired a current Science Library display.
What is Project Hail Mary?
Name a letter that is NOT part of the Library of Congress classification system.
(x2 points if you can name all 5!)
What is I/O/W/X/Y?
This is the last year the OC libraries used the Dewey Decimal System.
What is 1974?
Kira, Zahra, and Anna all have this in common.
May 2026 graduates! (Congrats!)
The classic Scooby-Doo villain that is featured on the back of the former inventory laptop.
Who is the Tar Monster?
The really spiky trees in the Science Library (allegedly) produce this fruit.
What is grapefruit?
This Library of Congress letter classification is only represented by ONE book in the ENTIRE Science Library.
What is A?
The 560s have books on this topic.
What is paleontology?
Name all 3 of Jillian's pets.
Who are Stormfly, Calliope, and Loki?
The inventory section that was the largest, at 4,993 books.
What are the QHs?
Followed by QEs (4,117) and QPs (3,898)!