General
Library of Congress
Dewey
Staff
Inventory
100

The loudest thing in the library.

What is the gate alarm?

100

Most of our collection is this Library of Congress letter category.

What is Q?

100

Most of our Dewey books are this number (in the hundreds).

What are the 500s?

100

She's the big boss of the Science Library.

Who is Eboni?

100

The most common inventory problem was this.

What are barcodes?

200

The top-secret storage library is found in this building.

What is Carnegie?

200

This is the smallest Science Library-specific Library of Congress section.

What are the QMs?

200

Dewey books are found in this area of the library.

What is moveable shelving?

200

The number of student employees at the Science Library.

What is 12?

200

324 of these were identified during inventory.

What are missing books?

300

The oldest book we have found in the Science Library (so far!) is from this decade.

What are the 1820s?

300

The QB section has books on this topic.

What is astronomy?

300

The first name of the founder of the Dewey Decimal System.

What is Melvil?

300

This student is currently studying abroad, but will be back in the fall!

Who is Sydney (Haddad)?

300

Jillian estimates over 6,500 books needed this treatment.

What is rebarcoding?

400

This movie inspired a current Science Library display.

What is Project Hail Mary?

400

Name a letter that is NOT part of the Library of Congress classification system.

(x2 points if you can name all 5!)

What is I/O/W/X/Y?

400

This is the last year the OC libraries used the Dewey Decimal System.

What is 1974?

400

Kira, Zahra, and Anna all have this in common.

May 2026 graduates! (Congrats!)

400

The classic Scooby-Doo villain that is featured on the back of the former inventory laptop.

Who is the Tar Monster?

500

The really spiky trees in the Science Library (allegedly) produce this fruit.

What is grapefruit?

500

This Library of Congress letter classification is only represented by ONE book in the ENTIRE Science Library.

What is A?

500

The 560s have books on this topic.

What is paleontology?

500

Name all 3 of Jillian's pets.

Who are Stormfly, Calliope, and Loki?

500

The inventory section that was the largest, at 4,993 books.

What are the QHs?

Followed by QEs (4,117) and QPs (3,898)!