Across
- 2. electronic collection of information, often of citations to materials on a particular subject.
- 7. materials such as a book or a copy of an article from another library.
- 8. AND, OR, and NOT) that may be used to join or arrange keywords in a search statement in order to narrow or expand the search.
- 9. return borrowed materials to the library. This is done by bringing the items to one of the security counters next to the main entrances. You may sometimes hear this procedure called "discharge."
- 11. number given to each book acquired by the library. Every book has a unique call number, much like every house in a city has its own address. The first portion of a Library of Congress call number (one or two letters followed by a few numerals) is the "name" of the "street"; the second portion (following the period) is the "house number."
- 14. borrow materials from the library. This is done at the circulation desk.
Down
- 1. a short summary of an article in a scholarly journal. It usually appears at the beginning of the article.
- 3. term often applies solely to the issues of a magazine or journal owned by the library, but it can also refer to all the materials (books, periodicals, audiovisual resources, databases, etc.) in the library's collections.
- 4. shelves that hold the library's books.
- 5. request that an item checked out to someone else will be saved for you when it is returned to the library. You may "place a hold" on an item at the circulation desk.
- 6. small white label with closely spaced black stripes that can be read by a computer. Bar codes on books and other materials are used to check out these items from the library.
- 9. counter where you borrow books and other library materials, renew items that you have checked out, place a hold on items already checked out, and so forth.
- 10. word that you use in order to find an item when searching an electronic database. Keywords are not the same as subject headings, and often are not as effective in locating relevant documents. Using a thesaurus can help identify appropriate search words.
- 12. records or historical documents, or the place where such records and documents are kept.
- 13. replace the final letter (or letters) in a search term with a symbol (such as *) to broaden the results of the search. The computer will find all words that begin with the letters remaining. For example, "teach*" could find records with all these words: teach, teacher, teaches, teaching, and teachable.