Library Skills

Library Skills

Research Tag

Choose a country and write a question about it.  For example what foods do they eat in Romania?

Topic: China

Big idea: What food do they eat in China?

Now go and find a book that you think could answer the question and fill out this information.

Book title: Travel through China

Author/s: Lynn Huggins-Cooper

Publisher: QED Publishing

Date of publication: 2007

Keywords found: Food, Chopsticks

Page #’s: 14-15, 28, 29, 30,

Key pictures found: Family eating, food, Chef cooking, Woman making tea,

Page #’s: 14 and 15

This is my library skills work. Ofa and I worked on it. Our book is about China.

Library Skills

Matching Parts of a Book

L.I. Know the different parts of non-fiction books

Each part of a book has a special name which you need to be a familiar with.

1. For each description below find the matching term in the box.

2. Write in the correct term in the space provided.

Index = Alphabetical list of all the topics in a book with the page number where the information can be found.

End papers = The first and last pages of a book.

Illustrator = The person who prepared or drew the pictures.

Introduction = Information about the book found at the beginning of a book.

Dedication= Words about a special person found at the front of a book.

Author = The person who wrote the book.

Glossary =  List of special words used in the book with their correct meanings.

Spine = The flat narrow outside strip of the book.

Publisher = The company who made the book.

Cover = The outside of the book.

Spine label = The label which identifies the book on the shelf.

Bibliography = A list of more books on the same subject.

Contents = A list of the titles of the chapters.

Library Skills

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles

Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:

Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ?

Yearbook of Population

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992?

Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

3. How to look after a puppy?

Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from?

Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster?

Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games?

Guinness Book of Records

7. The size of Noah’s Ark?

The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power?

A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run?

Encyclopedia of Athletics

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy?

Myths and Legends

Library Skills

Non-Fiction

What are non-fiction books?

Non-fiction books are books that are true or based on a real event.

Who was Dewey? He was the man who created the Dewey decimal system for the non-fiction books

How are non-fiction books arranged on the shelf? Non-fiction books are arranged by the Dewey decimals numbers

List the following spine labels in the correct order:

001

219

623

796

913

Choose a non-fiction book from the shelves.

Does the book you have chosen include the following?  Locate and photograph

Index                      Contents

page                      Title pages                                                                                                          Copyright                                 

What is a glossary?

A glossary is like the books dictionary. It has words that are in the book with who they are or what the word means.

Today at the library for library skills we found out lots of things about Dewey decimals.

Dewey Decimal Numbers

Decimals

Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves numerically.

The books are given a decimal number according to their subject.

Try putting these numbers in order.

1. 001 2.362 3.500 4.593.9 5.610 6.629.2 7.737.5 8.745.5

9.808.8 10.994

Look through the non-fiction shelves in the library.  What subjects do you find at these numbers.

004 - Data compressing computer science

796.3 - Athletic sports and games

500 - Natural science and mathematics

821 - Poetry

993.1 - NZ history

At what Dewey Decimal number would you find the following subjects:

Myths and Legends? - 753

Fashion? - 687

Inventions? - 608

Birds? - 598

Fairy tales? - 398

How to reference a book in APA format

This is how you reference this book.

Campbell, Guy, 2003 Battle facts for kids, Egmont books limited, Great Briton.  

How to reference a website

This is how you reference this webpage.

Mulhern, Diane, June 3 2015, Lego hotel opens in Florida, Retrieved June 4 2015, http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/blog/lego-hotel-opens-in-florida/ 

How to reference a website

This is how you reference a website: 
Ramsey, Sarah, May 28 2015, NASA begins testing Mars lander in preparation for the next mission to the red planet, Retrieved May 28 2015, from,http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-testing-mars-lander-in-preparation-for-next-mission-to-red-planet 

How to Reference a book

This is how you reference a book
Gravett, Christopher. (2002). Castle. Dorling Kindersley Limited : London

What Resources are available

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