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- What is the name of the classification system used at your school?
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- Dewey Decimal Classification
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- What Dewey Decimal classification would you show fellow students to
locate books on animal behavior?
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- In looking for the encyclopedias, what Dewey Decimal Classification
number would you look for?
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- According to Employment Outlook, Over 59,000 new or replacement jobs
will be available in
librarianship in the near future.
- True or False
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- Yes, in just two short years,
there will be many job openings in libraries.
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- Where do you find history materials in the Dewey Decimal Classification?
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- You’re looking for a poetry book. In the DDC where do you look?
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- In a recent study, 25% of current library directors will retire by 2009.
- True or false?
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- True
- Yes, many librarians will be retiring.
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- Librarians who do most of their research and information retrieval via
the Internet and other online services have been called…
- a reference librarian,
- systems librarian, or
- cyberlibrarian?
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- Cybrarian, shortened
- It actually could be any of these titles. Librarians are information
specialists.
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- When you need current info from a magazine article where do you look?
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- EBSCOhost OR Readers’ Guide
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- Most library jobs do NOT use computers.
- True or false?
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- False
- Most library jobs DO use computers everyday and sometimes exclusively.
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- I’m looking for info on the golfer Tiger Woods.
- Where would I look in the library?
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- Biographies,
- sports,
- 700s OR
- magazines
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- Under what DDC would I look for books on mythology?
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- To be a librarian you need what kind of degree—bachelor’s, master’s, or
doctorate?
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- In a recently published article, a library media specialist listed the
top ten reasons to be a librarian. Was “cool coworkers” one of the top
five reasons to be a librarian?
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- Yes, Martha Spear wrote that librarians are “intelligent, cultured,
well-read people who bring a myriad of skills, backgrounds, and
interests to the job.”
- American Libraries, March 2004
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- What was Dewey’s first name—Thomas, Melvil or Dewey?
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- Melvil Dewey -- founded Columbia Univ. library and directed NY State
Library from 1889-1906.
- Thomas Dewey ran for president in 1944 and 1948.
- Dewey Duck – Cartoon Character
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- To look for books on technology, where would you look in the Dewey
Decimal Classification System?
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- For books on the Spanish language I would look in what DDC area?
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