Literary Genres
A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story.
What is a mystery?
What is 398?
Service that is used to look up books.
What is card catalog? Or what is Evergreen?
The largest library in the United States of America.
The book that holds the Guinness World Record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
What is the Bible?
A book similar to a comic book, where the story is told in words and pictures.
What is a graphic novel?
Cooking with your favorite Chef.
What is 641?
Service that allows you to pick books up outside the library at anytime of the day.
What is lockers? Or What is Library Lockers.
The week that is celebrated in April every year to thank librarians and library workers for their hard work.
What is National Library Week?
First lady who worked as a school librarian.
Who is Laura Bush?
Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject.
What is nonfiction?
Graphic novels, manga and drawing.
What is 741?
Service that allows you to get eBooks, magazines or audio books with your library card.
What is Libby? Or What is Hoopla? Or What is Overdrive?
In 1905, a horse-drawn wagon for books was the first version of this.
What is a bookmobile?
The librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal System of classification which is widely used in libraries today.
Who is Melvil Dewey?
A book with comic style pictures that is read backwards. Usually comes with a disclaimer letting you know you are reading it the wrong way.
What is Manga?
Dog breeds, training and care.
What is 636?
Service that pulls books from outside of South Carolina.
What is ILL? Or What is interlibrary loan?
Started up a lending library in 1731.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This superheroine works as a librarian during the day.
Who is Batgirl?
(Batgirl is the alter ego of Dr. Barbara Gordon who has a doctorate in library science. She is head of Gotham City Public Library.)
A traditional story that was told before it was written down and was meant to teach a lesson.
What is a folktale? OR What is folklore?
Books about South Carolina. Decimal point.
What is 975.7?
Service that allows people to send prints into the library from outside the library.
What is mobile printing?
A Wealthy industrialist who donated $55 million—or about $1.6 billion in today’s dollars—between 1886 and 1919 to open an astonishing 2509 libraries worldwide, including 1679 in the United States.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Librarians used to have to learn this specific style of handwriting.
What is library hand?