Library Media Center Orientation Skills

What is your librarian's name?

You can come to the library for:

• Help with research and resources.

• A place to work or read alone.

• A place to work with a group.

• Help with technology.

How can you find a book to read in the library? (Check all that apply.)

• Look up books on a tablet at the desk.

• Ask Mrs. Howard for help.

• Browse the shelves.

• Ask friends for a recommendation.

From your Destiny account you can: (Check all that apply.)

• Search for books.

• Create a favorites list.

• See what you have checked out, when it is due, and if you have any fines.

• Place a hold on a book.

• Rate or review a book.

How are the fiction books shelved?

• By genre.

• Alphabetically by title.

• Alphabetically by the author's last name.

• By the subject.

How are the nonfiction books shelved?

• Alphabetically by the author's last name.

• In numerical, then alphabetical order using the Dewey Decimal System.

• By Genre.

• Alphabetically by title.

What does the FIC on this spine label represent?

• The first 3 letters of the author's last name.

• Fiction.

What do the last 3 letters on these spine labels represent?

• The first 3 letters of the book title.

• The genre.

• The first 3 letters of the author's last name.

Put these books in shelf-order.

• 920 MER, 920 DIM, 920 LIN, 909.82 JEN

• 909.82 JEN, 920 DIM, 920 LIN, 920 MER

• 920 LIN, 920 MER, 920 DIM, 909.82 JEN

• 909.82 JEN, 920 DIM, 920 MER, 920 LIN

In the Dewey Decimal System, what subjects would you find in the 500's section?

• Natural Sciences

• Arts and Recreation

• Geography and History

• Philosophy