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         I. What do these letters mean?

1.  What do you think books with call numbers that start with SD are all about?

2.  Say you're into zoology!  What call number letters would you use to browse for books in our stacks?

3.   ok... now let's see how good you are with math.... Put the following call numbers in order as if they were books on a shelf:

Remember to read the third and fourth row as a decimal number!

(1)               (2)            (3)           (4)            (5)

WB           WB             W            WB          WB
7400          740             7400        740          7400
.H41         .H46            .H41         .H5          .H4
 L27          L2                L7            L270        L27

Same here:

(1)              (2)              (3)               (4)              (5)

N                N                N                N                N
728             728             728             728             728
.A724         .A724         .A6             .A58           .A72
A32            A4              A3               B3             A32

II. A tour of our library....

Let's take a quick tour of our library web page (http://campuslibrary.cocc.edu/)!  Try to answer the questions below using the links of our web site:

1. Where would you click to find books in our COCC Library?

2. What's the name of  a database that you might use to find articles for your Health and Nutrition class?

3.  What's my office phone number (no cheating and looking at the syllabus... )?

4. Is the library open on Saturdays?

5. Where would you renew the library books you checked out?

6. What's ConXn?

7.  It's midnight and you are desperate for help!  Who's always there for you to get help with your research project?

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