Library vocabulary• Audiobook• Browse• Check out (borrow)• Catalog• Database• Fiction• Fine• Librarian• Nonfiction• Overdue (late)• Renew• Return• Textbook

Welcome to the NSCC Library

Review

• Pink labels – audiobooks (cassette or CD)• Purple labels – Listening & Pronunciation

material (CD or DVD)• Green LR labels – Leveled Readers

Reading levels:

Some fiction call number areas

• PN – General• PQ – European & related• PR – British & related• PS – US & related• PZ – includes Young Adult fiction

Some nonfiction call number areas

• D, E, F – Biography, History & Countries• KF – Citizenship• PE – Grammar, Dictionaries, English Language• R – Health & Medicine• T – Technology & Natural resources

You can also use the online catalog to find a book or DVD.

1. Go to the library website and click on “catalog”

2. Type in the title you are looking for

3. Find the book’s call number

The call number is the book’s “address” in the library.

Photo courtesy of Amanda Hornby, UW Libraries.

Please do not put books that you do not want back on the shelves.

Please put books back on this cart. We will put them back on the shelf.

You can also browse the DVDs to find movies.

Use a picture ID card to check out library materials.

Pass the item over when you leave.

Book returns are inside & outside

Fines You will need to pay • For overdue DVDs and reserve items • For damaged materials

Finally: Please do not talk on the phone in the library.

Learn more! Ask a librarian• How to renew books online• How to find DVDs and videos by subject• How to search a database for good

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