a student’s guide to independent use. purpose the purpose of this tutorial is to help familiarize...
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A Student’s Guide to Independent Use
PURPOSE
The purpose of this tutorial is to help familiarize students with the organization of the libraries, and teach how to use the automated system in which to search for specific information within the libraries.
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Location of Libraries Ouachita School District has two
separate libraries:One is housed at the end of the main high
school building. It is closest to the entrance used for students arriving through the bus loading zone.○ Pictures of High School Library
One is housed in the elementary right across from the elementary office area.○ Pictures of Elementary Library
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OUACHITA’S LIBRARY SOFTWARE
It is important to know that Ouachita School District uses Follett Circulation +/Catalog + for library organization and maintaining the collection.
Both libraries are cataloged under the same software program. To distinguish books in each library, an “E” is shown in front of the elementary library titles.
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OUACHITA’S LIBRARY COMPUTER LOCATION DESIGNATIONS
Elementary books are given call numbers with an “E” in them.
EXAMPLE: EF RYL, EE HEN, EPB
High school books do not have an additional letter.
EXAMPLE: F RYL, F HEN, PB
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Navigation of Student Tutorial
This tutorial is organized into three topics: OPAC, Dewey Decimal System, and Fiction.
To Navigate through a section, click on the arrow to the right of the topic on the Student Tutorial Contents Page.
When you finish a section, click on the home button to return to this page to select another topic.
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Student Tutorial Contents:
OPEC Dewey Decimal Fiction Section
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FICTION DEWEY
INDEPENDENT USE
OPAC
Tutorial Navigation Help:
Home Button will take you back to the Student Tutorial Contents Page.
Arrow Buttons will help you navigate through the three tutorial sections.
Question Mark will take you back to this screen.
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What is OPAC?: OPAC stands for :
ONLINEPUBLICACCESSCATALOG
It assists people in finding any library material in our library. It can be a particular book, a particular author’s works, or a particular subject area.
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OPACs are a faster version of the old card catalog.
Where is OPAC? What is OPAC? Getting Started:
Double click on the OPAC icon on desktop.○ It looks like books on a shelf.
There will be a gray screen with a text box and several buttons on it. The buttons are labeled:
Keyword Title SubjectSeries Call Number PowerBookbag Help Author
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How do you use OPAC? Enter your search term in the text box
rectangle. The search term is what you are looking for in
the library. Next click on the button that describes your search term. Is it the author’s name? Title? Keyword? Subject?
The bottom portion of the screen shows the search results for our library.Double click on a title of interest to see more
information about it, its location, and whether it’s available.
Search Example
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OPAC Index Buttons Keyword Button: After a keyword has been
entered into the text box, then a click on the keyword button will tell the computer to search for this word in all of the title records held in the libraries.
Title Button: After a title has been entered into the text box, then a click on the title button will tell the computer to search for a particular title in the libraries.
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OPAC Index Buttons
Author Button: After a author’s last name is typed into the text box, then a click on this button will search the computer for all of the titles written by a particular author. **Be sure to take note of an author’s first name, because there could be multiple authors with the same last name.
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OPAC Index Buttons Subject Button: Once a topical subject has
been typed in the text box, then a click on this button will search for MARC Records containing this subject in their subject line.What is a MARC record?
○ A MARC record is the specifics about a particular book. It lists the publisher, author, title, copyright date, book summary, reading level, related subjects, and many more specifics. Think of this as an extended bibliography about a book.
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OPAC Index Buttons Series Button: If a particular book series is
typed into the text box, then a click on this button will list all titles that are available in the library written in the series.
Call Number Button: If the call number for a particular book is known and is typed into the text box, then a click on this button will take you to the information about this particular book.
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OPAC Location Information
The information about the location of a book that you receive from OPAC is called the call number.
Call numbers are located on the spine of a book.
Call numbers are arranged:Alphabetically by authors last name for fiction
books.Digit by digit and first three letters of author’s
last name on nonfiction books.
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Dewey Decimal System
The Dewey Decimal Classification System was named after the man who created it – Melvil Dewey.
Who is Melvil Dewey? The Dewey Decimal System is divided
into 10 sections. In libraries that use the Dewey System, it is used to organize the non-fiction section.
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Dewey Decimal System Divisions
Range of Numbers Subject
000-099 Generalities
100-199 Philosophy/Psychology
200-299 Religion
300-399 Social Science
400-499 Language
500-599 Natural Science & Math
600-699 Technology (Applied Sciences)
700-799 Arts
800-899 Literature
900-999 Geography & History
92s Biographies
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These are the major divisions of the subject areas.NOTE: Natural Sciences are things that humans haven’t altered. Applied Science are things that humans have altered.
Dewey Decimal System Subdivisions
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Dewey Decimal System Book Organization
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Now for a quiz on ordering Dewey Decimal books!**Remember books are shelved digit by digit!EXERCISE #1 QUIZ
Fiction Section The fiction section has two main
subdivisions in the elementary library:EE before the first three letters of an
author’s name designates a book as an easy picture book.
F before the first three letters of an author’s name designates a book as a general fiction book. Longer chapter books are located in this area.
There is not a separate fiction section in the high school library.
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Paperbacks in the Fiction Section
High School:Paperbacks are shelved altogether by
author’s last name. These are located at the end of the hardback fiction section.
Elementary:Paperbacks are shelved separately from the
hardbacks according to their AR level.Paperbacks without an AR quiz are shelved
together near the encyclopedias.
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Paperbacks Continued As the library grows, this section will
gradually become smaller. It is Ouachita School District’s goal to gradually acquire hardback titles that last longer with patron use.
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OPAC
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Pictures of High School Library
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Pictures of Elementary Library
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