2. LIBRARY ORIENTATION Murrieta Valley High School

3. Library Hours

4. Using Your Library

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Copy Machine  10 cents a copy  Change for quarters  Only as a service to students!

8. Library Tech

10. Library Media Teacher

11. Mrs. Cline’s Office  Open Door Policy  Ask for help any time the door is open!

12. Checking Out Library Materials  Student ID required  3 week check-out  Renew for 3 more  4 books at a time

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

14. Homework Help  Copies of textbooks are available in the Reference Collection, across from Mrs. Cline’s office.  For use in the library!  Please ask if you need one you can’t find on the shelf.

15. Can YOU Find Books in the Library?

16. Dewey Decimal Classification His DDC is a grand strategy for organizing all knowledge and making library materials accessible!

17. 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

18. Library Organization at MVHS Six Main Areas Six Main AreasReferenceCareers Non-Fiction (DDC call #) BiographyFiction Story Collection

19. The Stacks  Look at the signs! Red=Fiction and Story Collection Red=Fiction and Story Collection Gray=DDC (Call numbers) “Nonfiction” Gray=DDC (Call numbers) “Nonfiction” Gold=Reference Collection Gold=Reference Collection Yellow=Career Collection Yellow=Career Collection Read the signs! Read the signs!

20. ***In Our Library (and most others)  Novels are in their own section, Fiction. AND…..the first 3 letters of the author’s last name!

21. *** continued  Collections of short stories, by one author or many, are in the story collection area  Not F or FIC but

22. 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.

23. 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 don’t find the book you were looking for

24. 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

25. Computers in the Library  Present ID to use  Microsoft Office97PowerPoint  Excel and Access  Word  Many other databases like EBSCO, Gale E-Books, College Source…

26. 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.

27. Library and Lab Computers

28. WWW....Using the Internet in the School Library  Acceptable Use Policy required  Student ID with a sticker  School-related research ONLY

29. 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