Arcadia High School Library Orientation Tour

What’s in the Library and how do I find it?

Fall 2013

Enter the Library through the turnstiles

Welcome to the AHS Library Tour

Library Hourswhen school is in session

• 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Monday – Thursday

• 7:00 am – 4:30 pm Fridays

Peer Tutoring

3:00 - 4:00 pm Mon. – Thurs.

Library hours are subject to change at the end of semesters, before holidays and finals. Changes in the hours will be posted on the doors and in the

student bulletin.

Mrs. Swensson will check textbooks in and out here at her desk, and help you find

library books. She can repair your textbooks and tell you about fines and lost books.

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Check library

books out here

Textbook check

out here

You need to remember the 2 different places to check out books or textbooks - You always need your ID card!

Textbooks you can

borrow to use to study

in the library – ask at

the checkout desk

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Find books here in the online

Library Catalog

TV and DVD/VCR

player

Non-fiction books

Biographies921

Student bulletin showing on TV

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Non-fiction books are arranged by subject using Dewey Decimal Classificationnumbers

After you find the call number for a non-fiction book, find the number on a shelf

Fiction books on the shelf by author’s last

name

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Close up look at Fiction books

shelved by author’s last name

Reference books

have REF on the

label and big R for

Reference

Reference books are used to look up information, are shelved in a special

place and stay in the library

Foreign language dictionaries in the Reference section

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English dictionaries in the Reference section

by the computers

Encyclopedias in the

Reference section

Library Computers with

Internet connection for doing school

work

Library printers are networked to all library computers - you must bring your own printer paper (you may only

print 5 pages)

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Copy machine - $.15 per copy

Hole punch, staplers, paper cutter and tissue

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Now go back to the

Library Tour page and watch

“How do I find a book in the Library?”