Library Terms

1. putting correct labels (barcodes, genre stickers, spine labels, etc.) on books and entering them into the catalog
5. an organization system where items are put in order from A- Z by letter and smallest to greatest by number
7. area where students drop off books to be checked in
8. books that contain stories from an author's imagination rather than real events as they actually occurred
10. topic(s) the book is about
12. checking in or checking out books
16. label on each shelf that gives an alphanumerical range (example: AAB - AZU) of call numbers
17. to make your search less specific (i.e., turn your small topic into a bigger but related topic)
19. any word in the book's catalog record (including the description, subject, title, author - everything)
21. another word for "customer" in the library
22. a searchable database that contains every single book our library owns

2. code on a book's spine label used to put it in order on the shelf
3. to make your search more specific (i.e., turn your big topic into a smaller but related topic)
4. a book's entry in the catalog, which contains the title, author, call number, subjects, and description of the book
6. books that contain information on actual events and real-life topics
9. process by which librarians look through their collections and remove books that are damaged, out of date, unpopular, or not needed any more
11. name of the book
13. the catalog entries that come up after you do a search
14. removing the barcode and all instances of the school's ownership from the books, and marking it for discard or donation
15. small shelf sitting on top of the book case where students can put books they decided not to check out
18. the name of our library's catalog
20. person who wrote the book