LIBRARY ORIENTATION

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LIBRARY ORIENTATION

• Murrieta Valley High School

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Library Hours
Every school day
700 am--330 pm
You must have a pass during class time!
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Using Your Library
No Pass Needed
Break Lunch
Before School
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Show Your Student I.D.

• To use a computer in the library
• To check out a textbook or library book
• To use the library AFTER SCHOOL

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Always Check In at the Front Desk

• If you come on a pass.
• If you want to use a computer.
• For accountability to teachers and in EMERGENCIES.

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Copy Machine

• 10 cents a copy
• Change for quarters
• Only as a service to students!

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Library Tech
Mrs. Buechler
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Library Tech
Ms. Anderson
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Library Media Teacher
Mrs. Cline
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Mrs. Clines Office

• Open Door Policy
• Ask for help any time the door is open!

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Checking Out Library Materials

• Student ID required
• 3 week check-out
• Renew for 3 more
• 4 books at a time

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Library Etiquette
Quiet voices, please!

• JUST LIKE CLASSROOMS
• Please do not eat or drink in the library---this
  means nothing, not even water.
• Please remove hats, caps, hoods.

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Homework Help

• Copies of textbooks are available in the
  Reference Collection, across from Mrs. Clines
  office.
• For use in the library!
• Please ask if you need one you cant find on the
  shelf.

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Can YOU Find Books in the Library?
Biography
Non-Fiction
Reference
FICTION
Story Collection
Careers
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Dewey Decimal Classification

• His DDC is a grand strategy for organizing all
  knowledge and making library materials
  accessible!

Thank you, Melvil Dewey 1851-1931
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Dewey Decimal Classification

• 10 Main Classes
• 000-Generalities 500-Science
• 100-Philosophy 600-Technology
• 200-Religion 700-The Arts
• 300-Social Science 800-Literature
• 400-Language 900-History

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Library Organization at MVHS

• Six Main Areas
• Reference
• Careers
• Non-Fiction (DDC call )
• Biography
• Fiction
• Story Collection

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The Stacks

• Look at the signs!
• RedFiction and Story Collection
• GrayDDC (Call numbers) Nonfiction
• GoldReference Collection
• YellowCareer Collection
• Read the signs!

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In Our Library (and most others)

• Novels are in their own section, Fiction.
• AND..the first 3 letters of the authors last
  name!

F or FIC
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• Collections of short stories, by one author or
  many, are in the story collection area
• Not F or FIC but

SC
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Library Catalog

• Shows ALL materials available in the MVHS Library
  (not textbooks) and selected web sites.
• Search by author, or title, or subject, or
  keyword
• Write down the title and the call number to
  locate the book on the shelf.

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Locating Materials

• Find what you need with the library
  catalog---write down the title and call number
• Look at the signs on the ends of bookshelves
• Find the matching call number on the spine of the
  book
• Check the title--and remember books on the same
  subject have that same call number if you dont
  find the book you were looking for

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IMPORTANT!!!

• Please DO NOT reshelve books
• Place items flat on a shelf or on the Returns
  Cart
• Library staff will put books in proper place

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Computers in the Library

• Present ID to use
• Microsoft Office97PowerPoint
• Excel and Access
• Word
• Many other databases like EBSCO, Gale E-Books,
  College Source

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A Word about WORD

• If you use Works or WordPerfect at home, save
  your work in RICH TEXT FORMAT so you can edit and
  print at school.
• ALWAYS save to a disk in the library or e-mail to
  your home computer.

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Library and Lab Computers
Please---School Work Only!
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WWW. . . .Using the Internet in the School Library

• Acceptable Use Policy required
• Student ID with a sticker
• School-related research ONLY

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• This presentation prepared using Office XP,
  Microsoft Clip Art, and images from the
  www.murrieta.k12.ca.us web site
• Prepared by Mrs. Cline for the 2006-2007