Library

Scavenger

Hunt

This scavenger hunt is meant as a basic introduction to the library services--both online and off-- you will be using over the next five years. You will be given a quiz grade for the activity, but remember that the goal is for you to explore and get familiar with resources so you can better decide which to use when research projects come up in any of your classes.

Record your answers on a separate sheet of paper or use a word processor. Please staple any of the requested printouts to your answer sheet. You do not have to work on the questions in order. If you are using a word processor, remember to leave yourself plenty of time to print your work before the activity is over.

Please remember to work quietly and efficiently!

On the library floor,

1. Politely introduce yourself to one or both of our library staff members. List both their names.

2. Locate and browse through the biography section and list one title you’d like to read. (List one for each partner.)

3. In the Reference area, locate a reference book or set of books that represents one of your interests or hobbies.

4. List the title of one cool movie behind the Circulation Desk.

5. How much does it cost to make a copy in our library?

6. In the stacks, find and list one of our bound magazine titles. What are bound magazines?

7. List the titles of three magazines you didn’t know the library had. Check the spinner up front by the Circulation Desk.

8. Browse through the fiction section and find the books with authors who share your last initial.  List one title by that author.

9. Use the ruler in the student supply box to measure the length of the library pencil sharpener.

In either of the PC lab areas, locate the Virtual Library and answer the following:

1. From the Alexandria Patron Catalog, find a book on any of the following topics and list its call number. Can you tell if it is available?

2. Using ProQuest's Historical Newspapers (in Catalogs and Databases) list an important headline printed the day you were born.

3. List four different databases included in EBSCOhost (in Catalogs and Databases).

4. List three "resource centers" included in our GaleNet subscription (in Catalogs and Databases).

5. What are the names of the two biographical databases in the library's online collection? (in Databases by Subject)

6. List two encyclopedias available from the Catalogs and Databases page.

7. What is NoodleTools?  Why would you use it?

8. List one student responsibility listed on our Research Integrity Policy.

9.  List one item in the Appendices section of our Research Guide.

10. Name three Internet search tools (search engines or subject directories) you have never used. (Check under Search Here)

11. Find our pathfinders on the homepage of the Virtual Library and list the names of two.  What is the purpose of a pathfinder?

12. What is the best strategy for searching a phrase on the Web? Give an example. (Look for tips under Search Here)

13. What is Turnitin.com?  Why would you use it?

14. Login to Safari Montage, one of the library's streaming video services.  The login is the same as your computer login.  View a little of and list the title of one film you might use to help you with coursework or in a project.

15. How and why would you use the pathfinder Copyright Friendly Images and Sounds?

16. What is the name of your librarian? Discover one interesting fact about her? (You may use Mrs. V’s Home page. or ask her personally).

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