Research Skills
Call Numbers
Internet Smarts
Finding Books
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100
The call number for a FICTION book would have this on the spine.
What is the letter F?
100
This is what you use to move up and down on a specific page.
What is the Scroll Bar?
100
What you would search by in a search box if you were looking for a book by Rick Riordan (subject, author, title, or keyword).
What is the author?
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
The call number for an Everybody or Easy book would ahve this on the spine.
What is the letter E?
200
This shows you the address of a website on the world wide web.
What is the Address Bar?
200
From a school computer, what you would click on FIRST in the launcher to find our online catalog.
What is library services?
200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
A book with the call number 950.65 ALM would be in this section on the library.
What is nonfiction?
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
Once in Library Services from the launcher, what you would click on to enter our catalog.
What is Destiny?
300
A fictional story about magic or magical creatures.
What is fantasy?
400
A book that has a collection of maps? This book also contains information about the land, crops and the population of an area.
What is an Atlas?
400
The call number of a book about Abraham Lincoln's life would start with this letter.
What is the letter B?
400
A program that searches information on the world wide web by looking for keywords.
What is a Search Engine?
400
How fiction and easy books are organized.
What is alphabetically by author's last name?
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 is a book of facts that is published each year containing miscellaneous information.
What is an Almanac?
500
Cornelia Funke wrote Inkheart, a book about a man who can read things aloud and bring things out of the book into real life. What would the Call number of Inkheart be?
What is F Fun?
500
The online encyclopedia that anyone can update, which makes it unreliable.
What is a Wikipedia?
500
How non-fiction books are organized.
What is by subject?
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?