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Research Skills
Parts of a Book
Internet Smarts
Where is it?
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100

This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.

What is the Title Page?

100
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
100

In our library, this genre is represented by the color Orange

What is Realistic Fiction ?

100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
200
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
200
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
200

This is a comfortable spot in our library where you might spend time reading to yourself or with a friend. 

What is the Library Living Room (or couch area)?

200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
300

This is an online tool that gives information about many topics. You can access this tool from our library website.

What is World Book Online

300
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
300
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
What is the Internet?
300

In our library, this genre is represented by the color light blue

What are graphic novels and manga?

300
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
400

This tool helps you find books and topics in our library and is located right in the center of our space.

What is the Library Catalog

400

The part of the library book that tells you where it is located in the library. Sometimes we talk about it having an Upstairs and a Downstairs.

What is a call number?

400
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
400

You can tell which genre in on a shelf by this.

What are the tape stripes, paper on the back of the shelves, sign or spine stickers?

400
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500

This tool comes from the State Library of Oregon and was used in our recent research project. You can access it from our library website.

What is OSLIS?

500

This is how books are scanned for checkout in the library.

What is a barcode?

500
An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.
What is a Hyperlink?
500

In our library, this genre is represented by the color black

What is Mystery?

500

A fictional story that could have happened.

What is realistic fiction?