Cataloging and Processing
The name of the clear plastic jacket on books
What is a Flimsy or mylar jacket?
This platform gives users free admission to museums and cultural attractions throughout Northern Nevada and California.
What is Discover & Go?
Name of our primary book vendor
What is Baker & Taylor?
This is the service that allows us to borrow books for our patrons from other institutions
What is Interlibrary Loan?
Items that have been sitting on the shelf for 2 years with no checkouts
What is stale?
What the vendor notes inside the front of each book
What is the acquisition date?
This is the database that lets users look up business and consumer information.
What is Reference Solutions (formerly Reference USA)?
The new(ish) name for the library eBook platform
What is Libby?
The number of titles a user can have checked out on Libby at one time
What is 10?
The term for identifying and removing outdated and worn materials from the library collection
What is weeding?
The term for format standard that serves as the foundation for cataloging records
What is the MARC record?
Name any of the top 3 online magazines for the last month
What is The New Yorker, Us Weekly, or The National Enquirer
This collection code has the highest number of checkouts.
What is adult fiction?
The term for books that publishers send to reviewers prior to release date
What is Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs)?
The period of time we leave Lucky Day copies on branch shelves without a checkout
What is 14 days? (7 days if a branch has more than 1 copy of that title)
The item type that tells a book to always return to its home library
What is BKX?
Name the two newspapers available online to all users
New York Times and Wall Street Journal
The name we use for non-holdable copies of popular titles
What is Lucky Day?
Name one of the 3 titles with the highest number of holds on Libby.
What is Lessons in Chemistry (309 ebook), Spare (255 eaudio), or Demon Copperhead (207 ebook)
Our preferred source of disposal for discarded items
What is Friends of Washoe County Library?
What this line of text on a spine label is called
What is Cutter?
The name of our language learning platform
What is Mango?
The name of the discovery layer for our online public access catalog
What is Aspen?
The size of our materials budget for 2024 (within $200,000)
What is $1,439,720?
Our newest partnership location
What is the jail library? (Sun Valley or Cold Springs Kiosk could count as well)