Library?
True or False- Modern libraries contain much more that books.
True
This section of the library contains materials published at regular intervsals.
periodical
All books fall into one of two categories. What are these two categories?
fiction and nonfiction
For nonfiction books, the label contains the book's ________________ _________________.
Call Number
This type of dictionary gives information on important people from the past and present.
biographical dictionary
True or False- Libraries are usually divided into several sections.
True
This section contains materials that do not circulate (cannot be checked out).
Reference
This category of books comes out of the author's imagination.
fiction
The call number is the Dewey Decimal number with the ____________________ letter of the author's last name under it.
first
These books contain articles on almost every imaginable subject.
Encyclopedias
True or False- Libraries provide a narrow selection of infromation and tools for you to use.
False
This section includes audio cassettes, videos, DVD, works of art.
Audio-Visual
These types of wooks present facts on almost every subject.
nonfiction
A fiction book is labeled with the first few letters of the author's last name and the captial ltter ________.
F
This is the most commonly used periodical index.
The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Where does the word liber (books) come from?
Latin
A captial R or REF on the book's spine indicates that the book belongs in the what section of the library?
Reference
Most libraries us this classification system for nonfiction books.
Dewey Decimal
There are three types of cards in the card catalog. What are they?
author card, title, and the subject card
The Readers' Guide lists articles from approximately how many magazines?
250
Librarians arrange books on shelves which they call _________________.
Stacks
The capital letters J and YA on the books spine indicates that the book belongs in the ______________ or __________________ section of the library.
juvenile and young adult
This library classification system uses letters and numbers instead of numbers only and has twenty-one subject caregories instead of ten.
Library of Congress
Many libraries today have converted their card catalogs to ______________ ___________________.
computer catalogs
There are seven types of reference materials in the reference section. List them.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Atlases, Books of Quotations, Concordances, and the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature