Libraries
Dublin Core
This week's readings
People
Library Potpourri
100

This type of library is open for all students on a college campus.

What is an academic library?

100

The entity responsible for making contributions to the resource. 

What is the contributor?

100

To help keep people's minds off the famine, King Lydia decreed that people would eat one day, and the next day they would play this type of game.

What is dice?

100

This creator of the Dewey Decimal System was born in 1851 in New York.

Who is Melvil Dewey?

100

Data about data. 

What is metadata?

200

This type of library is often found in front yards or parks and is curated by the public.

What is a little free library?

200

An account of the resource.

What is the description?

200

It has been proven that this type of gaming can effectively treat cataracts. 

What is first-person shooter?

200

This Scottish-American philanthropist passionately supported libraries, providing funding for around 3,000 libraries in 47 states.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

200

A volunteer group that supports their local library, often with the goal of raising money for the library.

What is Friends of the Library? (Or just "Friends")

300

A motorized library on wheels.

What is a bookmobile?

300

A name given to the resource.

What is the title?

300

Professors at Appalachian State University used this type of gaming to teach public library management. 

What is epistemic?

300

Though more well-known for creating bifocals, he conceived the idea of the subscription library and hired the first American librarian, Louis Timothee.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

300

The librarian in the movie, "The Music Man," who had a song dedicated to her. 

Who is Marian? (Or Marian the Librarian)

400

To visit this kind of library, you'll have to be sentenced first.

What is a prison library?

400

The nature or genre of the resource.

What is the type?

400

The game created by Jane McGonigal that helps people tackle real-life health challenges.

What is SuperBetter?

400

As First Lady, she established the annual National Book Festival in 2001. 

Who is Laura Bush?

400

A data structure used to catalog visual items.

What is VRA Core?

500

The largest library in the world, located in Washington, D.C.

What is the Library of Congress?

500

An entity responsible for making the resource available. 

What is the publisher?

500

To better engage students with the staff, resources, and layout of the library, North Carolina State University organized this type of game using iPod Touches.

What is a scavenger hunt?

500

This librarian is also an author known for her books about two sisters named Ramona and Beezus. 

Who is Beverly Cleary?

500

The first electronic version of this classification system was made available in 1993.

What is the Dewey Decimal System?