Parts of a Book
This part of the book protects the inner pages of text and can be either made of paper-covered cardboard or very heavy weight paper.
What is the cover?
The current library director
Who is Rachel Heinrich?
This medium of artwork was placed in safe storage for the month of June this year due to the Harvey Street construction project.
What is stained glass?
The largest library in the United States located in Washington D.C.
What is the Library of Congress?
This section contains books on topics like astronomy, math, plants, and animals.
What are the 500s
This part of the book is what you see when the book is on the library shelves and is often printed with the title and author’s name.
What is the spine?
The library's current non-human staff member
Who is Amelia the Turtle?
The oil portrait near the bathrooms shows this famous Boundary Waters resident.
Who is Dorothy Molter?
This library's main branch has 2 famous lion statutes outside the entrance named "Patience" and "Fortitude"
What is the New York Public Library?
This section is where you would go to find books on geography and history.
What are the 900s?
The non-abbreviated version of the common book identification tool “ISBN”.
What is International Standard Book Number?
1922
What is the year that the library was founded?
The illustrator of the children’s book The Quiltmaker’s Gift who also made the carving located over the children’s nonfiction.
Who is Gail deMarcken?
This major religious library is rumored to contain secrets within its holdings
What is the Vatican Library?
This call number is where you can find cookbooks.
What is 641?
The name for the page that is on the other side of the paper from the title page.
What is the verso?
The first paid library staff person in Ely
Who was Ruth King?
One of the library’s watercolor works shows this animal standing in front of the old location of the library.
What is a cow?
This early American library has Benjamin Franklin as one of its founding members
What is the Philadelphia Public Library?
This call number is used for biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies.
What is 641?
The inner margins of the pages of a book where the book is bound together.
What is the gutter?
The number of head librarians who worked in the Ely library before being in charge.
What is 4?
This artist has 2 works on display in the library – one of which, Trading on the Laurentian Divide, is hanging over the library’s mantel.
Who is Carl Gawboy?
The main research library for the University of Oxford in England
What is the Bodleian Library?
This is the call number where you would find books on dinosaurs.
What is 567?