This person is ALWAYS ready to help you in the library--to do research, to find a good book, etc. and usually with a smile!
Who is Ms. Turner?
100
This is an example of a book genre.
What are: mysteries, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, romance, science fiction? (any of these are accepted)
100
The NAME of our online catalog and also another word for fate.
What is DESTINY?
100
These are 2 encyclopedias that the library has both in print form and online.
What are The World Book and Encyclopaedia Britannica?
100
This is the term used for taking another person's work and calling it your own.
What is a plagiarism?
200
These are the names of the two always helpful and gracious, hard-working library assistants at the circulation desk.
Who are Ms. Kitty and Ms. Bott?
200
The author of the Hunger Games series.
Who is Suzanne Collins?
200
These are what you'll find if you search WEBPATH EXPRESS through Destiny.
What are websites?
200
We use this method at AISG for how we do citations and bibliographies to credit sources we use for projects.
What is MLA?
200
This is the term that describes limiting the books and information that people are allowed to see or use.
What is censorship?
300
These kinds of books (often read for pleasure) are in order by the last name of the author.
How are FICTION books arranged?
300
He writes the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
Who is Jeff Kinney?
300
If you need ideas for what to read next, you can look at this part of Destiny for some good reading lists.
What are Resource Lists?
300
Most teachers don't think this is a reliable or credible online source to use for research.
What is Wikipedia?
300
It's called Boolean logic (or Boolean searching) and uses these 2 or 3 terms to put ideas together.
What is OR, AND, and NOT?
400
This is the total number of books/magazines you can borrow at one time.
What is FIVE?
400
Even though it's the name of an animal, it's also what we call books that get special focus each year--and that middle schoolers are encouraged to read.
What are the Panda Books?
400
You can open this video streaming program to watch short videos about lots of topics explored by a boy named Tim and a robot named Moby.
What is BrainPop?
400
It includes lots of newspaper articles--millions--and it's on the library page.
What is Newsbank?
400
It is "Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
What is the quote on the library wall?
500
The name of the classification system used by our library--how our nonfiction/informational books are organized.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
500
These books are in the 741.5 section, are very popular, and have lots of pictures.
What are graphic novels? Or, what are comics?
500
If a book you want to read has already been checked out, you can do this. You'll get an email when it's ready for you.
What is reserving or holding a book?
500
This is the word for an important TERM you might use in a search for information.
What is a keyword?
500
This is one way to evaluate a website (there are several ways).
What is currency? What is reliability? What is authority? What is accuracy? What is purpose?