Catherine Jones Library

James A. Garfield High School

Library Scavenger Hunt

This scavenger hunt is intended as a basic introduction to the librarys print material that you will be involved with over the next four years. You will be divided into teams of four to five students. Your grade will depend on three things: o How completely you answer each question. You do not have to answer the questions in order. Skip around and do the easiest questions first. o How many questions you answer correctly. o How quickly your team finishes the assignment. Answer as many questions as you can in the time you are given. Move quickly, but remember that the goal is for you to discover and become familiar with the library resources so you can better locate materials you will need for future class projects. Record your answers on a separate sheet of paper only one sheet for each team. Include all team member names. Be careful! The library is tricky and some questions dont have obvious answers! 1. How many atlases are there in the podium at the Reference Section of the library? ________ 2. Write the names of at least two library student workers: 3. If you checked out a reference book on Monday this week and didnt return it until the following Monday, how much money would you owe in overdue fines? 4. Fiction books are labeled FIC, non-fiction books are labeled with numbers. How is the collection of short stories labeled? (check the south wall) 5. The Archive Room (southwest corner of the library) houses the school archives. What are archives? Name one type of archival material in the Garfield Room:

6. What color is the dot on all: World War II Reference books? College Reference books?

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Reference Literary Criticism books? ________________________ 7. Count all the computers in the library lab. How many are there? 8. On what bookcase rows are the biographies located? List the title of one biography book you are interested in (one for each team member): 9. List the titles of three magazines you didnt know the library had.

10. Would a book with the call # 973.174 go before or after a book with the call # 973.22? 11. Locate the picture of Mrs. Reiterman, Garfields first Girls Vice Principal. What is her first name? 12. Are there real plants or fake plants or both in the library? 16. What are the yellow and black paperbacks on the east wall (Reference section) called? 17. Give the names of the two newspapers the library subscribes to. A. B. 18. Find the shelf containing the books with the lowest call number and write down the title and call # of one of those books: 19. Using the OPAC (on-line public access catalog) or computerized card catalog, find a book with the title, Blood Bowl. Who is the author?

20 College and job information are located on shelves on the south wall of the library. What is the title of the college information encyclopedia in 5 volumes on that bookcase? 21. Circle the correct spelling (use a dictionary) for the word below: Study carel or study carroll or study carol or study carrel

22. Find a copy of President Lincolns Gettysburg Address. List the title and call # of the book where you found it:

23. How many display cases does the library have and whats in one of them? Number: ___________ Display description: _________________________________________________ 24. Go to the Reference section of the library and list four sets of encyclopedias there. They must have the word encyclopedia in the title. Do not list World Book Encyclopedia or Colliers Encyclopedia. o _______________________________________________________ o _______________________________________________________ o _______________________________________________________ o _______________________________________________________ 25. Explain what tutoring is and why the library has free tutoring after-school on Monday through Thursday: 26. If you were off campus and had to call the library, what number would you dial? (area code) ___________ (number) _______--___________ 27. To what family do crayfish belong? 28. What subject does the Dewey Decimal number 641.5 cover? 29. Locate a book about abortion and list the following information: o Call number ____________________ o Author _________________________ o Title ___________________________