Following you will find a copy of  a worksheet to be used as a lesson 
plan in giving students hands on experience in finding their way around 
the library.
The first section is a list of call numbers so students can go directly 
to the shelves to find the book (you'd be surprised at how many, after 
they look up books in card catalog, cannot find the book on the shelf--
especially if it is in the reference section or the biography section).  
Other questions are designed to have students use online catalog, 
special reference works, and indexes.  Since I designed this lesson for 
ninth graders I chose to wait for another day to introduce Reader's 
Guide, and using the Internet. I have trouble with students wanting to 
copy from the encyclopedia for their reports so I make a copy of a fact 
sheet about a president and give them practice in writing in paragraphs, 
and creating their own report.

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Using the Library Media Center          

Name_______________________________

1. Below are call numbers for books we have in the library.  Go to the
 shelves and find the book. Write the title of that book on the line
 beside the call number:

__________     ________________________________________________
                                           (title)



__________     ________________________________________________
                                        (title)




__________     _________________________________________________
                                           (title)

__________     ________________________________________________
                                            (title


_____________This is the call number for the book entitled  
"Baby and Child Care".

Who is the author?   _______________________________________



2.  In Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, what are the guide words
 used when you look up the word "mink".

3.  According to the Dewey Decimal system, the 200-299 section groups 
  together materials on  what subject?

4.  Find the biography of Davy Crockett.  What is the title of 
    chapter	3?


5.  Using the atlas, find the approximate distance between Los Angeles, 
CA and San Diego, CA.



Card catalog on computer:  Using the computerized card catalog, answer 
the following questions:

1.  Give the title and call number of one book by each of these authors:

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ______________________________________________

John Steinbeck _______________________________________________________

Isaac Asimov  _____________________________________________________

2.  What is the most recent book about comets in our library? Give title and
copyright date.
 __________________________________________________________________

3.  How many books does the library have about cooking?   _____________

4.  Give the call number and author for each of the following books:

   The Good Earth   ____________ (call number) ________________(author)
	
     The Swiss Family Robinson    ______________________________________

     How to know the insects  _______________________________________

     Darkest hours _______________________________________
    
 (In what section of the library would you find this book).  Circle one:
Fiction    Non-fiction   Reference    Biography


Where Would You Look?      (Match)

Read the questions below.  Place the letter of the source  (you would 
use to find the answer) in the blank to the left.  Answer the questions 
for extra credit.

_____1.What is the average salary for school teachers? A.  Encyclopedia
_____2.When did Queen Victoria die?                    B.  Almanac
_____3.What movie won an Academy Award for             C.  Atlas
                "best picture" in 1994?                D. Card Catalog
_____4.The volcano Rabbit is an endangered species
       found in what country?                          E.  a special 									   reference ency
_____5.Does the library have a book on Ted Turner?     F.  Occupational 							              Outlook Handbook 
       What is the title of chapter 1
               
 





Name _______________________

Using Indexes :  Use the indexes (on the double table) answer the 
following questions:

1.  List the name of a Canadian explorer that you could 
    do a report on.



2.  Give the ingredients for cranberry sherbet.



3.  Give the volume and page number where you can find information on 
    "drugs and public policy"    (Grolier's Wellness Encyclopedia)



4.  What volume of World Book would you look in to find information on    
    the American Revolution  (include page numbers).



5.  In the set of books on the presidents, where would you 
    find information on John F. Kennedy   (volume and page numbers)



6.  In what country would you find the "Gold Museum"?



7.  What languages are spoken by the people in Vanuatu?



8.  Where could you find a picture of a beaver?



9.  In the New Popular Book of Science give the volume and 
page number where you would look for information on 
"biological clocks"?

10.  Who was Arthur M. Hyde?