Where do I find….?Or

How to use the Library

Basic Info Ms. Nelson, Librarian Mrs. Clarkson, Library Assistant Mrs. Revucky, Library Assistant

8 – 5 Monday through Friday

http://www.sjprep.org/

What’s Available Fiction Non-fiction Reference Databases Magazines Newspapers Laptops Digital cameras Microfiche Movies

Some Rules Backpacks ON metal

racks Student IDs needed Four students to a

table No food or drink No cell phones/iPods

Fines Fiction/Nonfiction – 10

cents/day

Reference – 25 cents/day

Books on tape/cd – 25 cents/tape/day

DVDs – 25 cents/day

Digital cameras – $1.00/day

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The “Hidden Web” Peer-reviewed Scholarly Unbiased Authoritative Updated regularly

Databases

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Free Easy to use Accessible from

anywhere Free No specialized

knowledge needed

World Wide Web

Geeks are Cool AND (“drug abuse” AND teens)

Narrows search, returns documents with both terms present

OR (teen OR adolescent) Broadens search, returns documents with either term present

Used for synonyms, related words NOT (drugs NOT prescription) Narrows search Combine your search

(“drug abuse” AND (teen* OR adolesc*))NOT prescription

Use Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT to create powerful searches

The End Ms. Nelson (snelson@sjprep.org) 215.978.1975

Such be the library; and takeThis motto of a Latin makeTo grace the door through which I pass:Hic habitat Felicitas!

Sherman, Frank Dempster. “Library, The.”The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry. July 5, 2005.