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MJHS LS5
MJHS 5th gr. library skills vocab
Question | Answer |
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Fiction | Made-up story |
Biography | Story of someone's life |
Non-Fiction | "True" books |
Atlas | Book of maps |
Almanac | Book of facts and statistics |
Dewey Decimal System | System of classifying books by subject |
Call number | Shows where to find books on the shelf. |
Barcode | How the computer identifies a book. |
Copyright | When the author registered the work as their own |
Blurb | 2-3 paragraphs to interest you in the book. |
Illustrations | all the pictorial material in a book. |
Table of Contents | A list of sections/chapters and the page they are begin on. |
Index | An alphabetical list of terms in the book and what page they are on. |
Encyclopedia | A book with articles on many subjects. |
Database | Collection of information searchable by computer. |
Search Engine | Tool that enables you to find things on the Internet. |
Internet | A vast network of smaller networks that use common communication designs. |
Search Term | Words you use to search electronically. |
Hits | What the results of a computer search are called. |
World's largest search engine. |