LIBRARY USE ONLY 1 2 3 Gainesville Middle School Library Orientation Sixth Grade Student Name: Team Name: English Teacher: Period: Science Teacher: Period: Social Studies Teacher: Period: 2012-2013 1
LESSON 0.5 Gainesville Middle School Library Word Bank: Biography, Book Return, Circulation Desk, Computers, Fiction, Magazines, Main Doors, Nonfiction, Offices, Reference, Short Stories #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 2
LESSON 1 Index Worksheet Fill out the answers to the following questions as you listen to Mrs. Ware s and Mrs. Blaher s lesson. 1. Where in a book do you find an index? 2. What does an index list? 3. An index is arranged in order. Use the following example to answer the next 2 questions: War of 1812, 8: 1646-52 Battle of Tippecanoe, 4:684; 8 1523-24, 164 Harrison, William, 4: 684 4. In the example above, if I was looking for information on the War of 1812, in what book in the set would I need to look? Between which pages would I find the article about the War of 1812? 5. How many books in the set have information on the Battle of Tippecanoe? What numbers are they? 6. Why are the Battle of Tippecanoe and Harrison, William listed under the War of 1812? 7. If I was to look up George Washington in the index of a book, would I look under G for George or W for Washington? Use the following example to answer the next question: Wall, the. See Vietnam Veterans Memorial 8. I wanted to find information about the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, and looked up The Wall in this index. What does the index tell me I should look up instead to find the information? 3
Reference Book This is one of several worksheets. We try to have one for each student in the class. 1. Go to the Reference section of the library and find the book listed in the box below. Then, take it to a table to work. Call Number REF 973 BRO Title Frontier America, Volume 2, West to the Pacific 2. Before you open the book, answer this question: Which of the following research questions do you think will be covered in this book? Circle the correct answer. A. What is life like in India? B. How many planets are in the solar system? C. How do airplanes fly? D. What kinds of people moved westward to settle in Texas? 3. Open the book and turn to the Index. Look up Louisiana. On what pages can you find information in volume 2 on Louisiana? Turn to those pages and answer the following questions: What is the title of the article? Who decided to purchase the Louisiana territory? France had lost most of its North American empire by the end of what war? What was that war called in North America? 4. Turn back to the Index. Look up Plains. What do you think see Great Plains means? 4
5. Turn to the Title Page and answer the following questions: What is the title of this book? What is the name of the company that published the book? In what city was this book published? (Hint: Pick the first city on the list.) When was this book published (copyright year)? (Hint: You may have to look on the back of the title page to answer this question.) 6. Using the citation form (below) to help you, write a citation for the article you found in question 3. Citation for Encyclopedia/Reference Book.. Title of Article. Title of Encyclopedia. :,. Print. City of publication: Publishing company, Copyright year. This is what your citation should look like: Iodine. The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book Inc., 2007. Print. 5
LESSON 2 Library OPAC Lesson Fill in the blanks while you listen to Mrs. Blaher and Mrs. Ware. 1. Where do I click to open the OPAC? 2. What does the icon look like (describe it)? 3. What does the Call Number of a book tell me? 4. An easy way to tell if a book is fiction or nonfiction is by looking at the call number. Nonfiction books have. Fiction books start with or. 5. How can I tell that a book is available (not checked out)? 6. Fiction books are arranged on the shelf in order. Fiction books that have the same will be on the shelves next to each other. 7. Nonfiction books are arranged on the shelf in order. Nonfiction books that all have the same or similar will be on the shelves near each other. 8. If I didn t find the book I was looking for with a subject search, which search would I do to broaden my search (get more results)? 6
Library OPAC Scavenger Hunt This is one of several worksheets. Getting Started 1. Go to one of the library s computers. 2. In the Novell window, click on the OPAC icon. 3. Click on the Catalog tab at the top of the screen to start your search. Task One 1. In the Search box, type Penguins. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click the Subject search button. 3. How many books does the library own that have penguins as the subject? (Hint: Look for the number near the top of your results list.) 4. What are the Title and Author of the second book on the list? Title: Author: 5. What is the Call Number of this book? 6. Is this book fiction or nonfiction? 7. How can you tell if a book is fiction or nonfiction? 7
Task Two 1. In the Search box, type Penguins. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click on the Keyword search button. 3. How many books does the library own that have penguins as the keyword? (Hint: Look for the number near the top of your results list.) 4. Is this number larger or smaller than the number of books that have penguins as the subject? Why do you think the number is different from the subject search? 5. Are all of the books on the results list about penguins? 6. True or False (circle the correct choice): A keyword search is a way to narrow a search. Task Three 1. In the search box, type Candy. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click on the Keyword search button. 3. Write the title of the second book on the results list: 4. Write down THREE call number of ANY book from the results list. 8
Why do you think the call numbers are similar? In the call numbers, what do the 3 letters that follow the number represent? Task Four 1. In the search box, type Lois Lowry. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click on the Author search button. 3. How many books does the library have that were written by Lois Lowry? 4. Find The Gathering Blue on the list. Click on Details. 5. Write the first sentence of the plot summary on the lines below. (The plot summary tells what the book is about.) 6. Will an author search in the GVMS OPAC show me every book ever written by an author? Explain why or why not. 9
Task Five 1. In the search box, type Dicey s Song. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click on the Title search button. 3. Double click on the details icon next to the second book on the list. 4. When was this book published? 5. How many copies of this book does the GVMS library own? 6. Under the section, click on the Brothers and Sisters Fiction link. What is the title of the 10 th book on the results list? 7. True or False (circle the correct choice): The Explore links are a way to find books that have similar stories or characters. Task Six 1. In the search box, type American Chillers. DO NOT PRESS ENTER! 2. Click on the Series search button. 3. How many books do we have in this series? 4. True or False (circle the correct choice): I would use a series search to see which book comes first in a series. 10
LESSON 3 Internet Terms Internet: A worldwide network of, providing file transfer, remote login,, news, and other services. World Wide Web: The worldwide collection of pages, digital photographs, files, videos, and animations you can access over the. Browser: A program for viewing, pages. Examples include Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. Search Engine: A on the Web designed to help users locate Web sites on specific. The user types in a search or phrase and is given a range of sites to choose from. Examples of search engines include: Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. Link: A pointer to another page, also known as a hyperlink or. Database: A collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated. Only information from reliable sources is included. 11
Web Page: the common name for one of on the Web. Each page displays text and can incorporate graphics, sound, video, and other special effects. Website: web pages that contain similar content and share an Internet. For example, all of the web pages on www.chem4kids.com comprise the chem4kids website. Home Page: The, introductory page at a web site, from which other at the site can be accessed. Also, a site on the Web where an individual, school,, or other organization may present its own assortment of articles, graphics, and links. Title of Webpage: The test that appears in the browser s. Web Address: The method by which Internet sites are addressed, also known as (Uniform Resource Locator). For example, GVMS s web site is www.gainesvillems.schoolfusion.us. Author or Sponsoring Company: The person, organization, institution, or company that or is represented by the website. 12
Websites Fill in the blanks below with the information you wrote down from your websites.... Web.. Title of Site. Name of Publisher/Sponsor. Copyright Date. Web. Date you got the information.... Web.. Title of Site. Name of Publisher/Sponsor. Copyright Date. Web. Date you got the information.... Web.. Title of Site. Name of Publisher/Sponsor. Copyright Date. Web. Date you got the information.... Web.. Title of Site. Name of Publisher/Sponsor. Copyright Date. Web. Date you got the information. This is what a website citation should look like: Chem4Kids.com: Neon. Andrew Rader Studios. 2007. Web. 19 Nov. 2007. 13