Exercise 1

I. A virtual 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 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?

8. You live in Redmond. Do you need to come to our library to pick up your library books?



II. 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)
QB    QB    Q    QB    QB
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