Assessment Of Familiarity With Library Terms (revised 5/04)

Key to the Assessment of Familiarity With Library Terms
Examples of Good Assessments
Faculty/Library Connections
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Can you match the description with the correct term?
Write the description number next to the correct library term below.

1. Description of a source, which typically includes the title, author, publishing information, etc.
2. Shelving code that keeps books about similar subjects near each other.
3. Database for finding articles in select Michigan Newspapers back to the year 1998.
4. A specialized subject index for finding citations to articles in scholarly periodicals.
5. Library service for borrowing books and articles Delta does not own.
6. Periodical written to satisfy the interests and reading abilities of the general public.
7. Periodical written by and for specialists, often reporting research information.
8. List of periodical and Government Document titles that Delta College owns in print.
9. Source for finding books and other resources in Delta's library and area public libraries.
10. Standardized terms used to group information logically.
11. Search term that can be retrieved from anywhere in a record - title, subject, abstract, etc.
12. Paper index for finding citations for popular magazine articles.
13. Styles of writing and citing sources.
14. Comments about a source, usually critical or explanatory.
15. Databases that index magazines, journals, newspaper articles, reference books, and more.
16. Index to U.S. Government publications.
17. Online catalog to resources (mostly books) cataloged by world libraries, including evaluated Web sites and eBooks.
18. Paragraph that summarizes the content of a journal or magazine article.

Key to the Assessment of Familiarity With Library Terms
Examples of Good Assessments
Faculty/Library Connections
Library Home Page