Media Center Orientation

2008

Who Can Help Me? Ms. Dwyer

Media Specialist Academic/Unified Arts Teacher

What is a Library Media Center? Books Magazines Newspapers Videos DVDs CDs TV/VCR Computers with Internet access: school related Database access More

What Do I Need? No Library Card! Student ID Number Only! Sign out books for 3 weeks Sign out a magazine overnight Know your student number Return books by due date or else renew them Leave book or magazine in book return

Your Responsibilty When your borrow a book or magazine be

sure to return it on time for the next person. Be courteous and respectful to others. Take care of the materials that you take out.

Fiction Section A fictional book is not true. It is made up from

someone’s imagination. A novel is fiction. Fiction books are arranged in alphabetical

order according to the author’s last name. (Fic Row)

Reference Section Books such as dictionaries, general and

special encyclopedias, atlases, world almanacs and more.

Ref.031 Wor

Biograhpy92 A biography is a book written about the life of

a person. It is supposed to be true. All books with the call number 92 are

biographies. Biographies are arranged alphabetically by

who they are about & shelved near the windows.

How Can I Come to the Library Media Center You can get a pass from your language arts,

reading teacher or other teacher. You need to have a pass.

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