Welcome to Library Orientation! Please get a green, gold, and blue handout from the table. Please...

Welcome to Library Orientation!

Please get a green, gold, and blue handout from the table.

Please sit with a partner you would like to work with at a table where you can see the screen.

Agenda:– Introduction to MHS Library– Library Scavenger Hunt– Share Scavenger Hunt Findings– PRIZES!

Welcome to the Mariemont High School Library!

LibrarianMrs. Colpi

Library AideMrs. Monterosso

Hours of Operation:7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.*

Library and Computer Lab Rules

1. Upstairs computer labs are for classes only. Individual students are welcome to use the lower library.

2. Please print Class Assignments ONLY.3. No Games, DVDs, instant messaging, or

music.4. No Food or Drink in the Library or Computer

Labs.5. RESPECT!

What’s offered at your libraryIN PRINT

Fiction– Location:

Back wall

– Loan Period: 15 school days– Overdue Fines: $.05/day

What’s offered at your libraryIN PRINT

Nonfiction– Location: 6 free-standing

shelves on the left– Loan period: 15 school days– Overdue Fines: $.05/day

Biographies– Locations: Center free-

standing shelf– Loan Period: 15 school days– Overdue Fines: $.05/day

What’s offered at your libraryIN PRINT

Reference– Locations: 2nd and 3rd free-

standing shelves from the right

– Loan period: overnight– Overdue Fines: $1.00/day

What’s offered at your libraryIN PRINT

Other Sections:– Current Biographies

Location: R 920.02 CUR

– Careers Location: Free-standing shelf on the right

– Encyclopedias Location: Free-standing shelf on the right

– Atlases Location: Rolling cart in the center

– Dictionaries Locations:

– Free Standing shelf next to computers– Nonfiction and Reference: 423s

What’s offered at your libraryIN PRINT

Periodicals:NewspapersMagazines– Location:

By the windows Back issues in office—

just ask!– Loan period:

Newspapers in library only

Magazines—5 days– Overdue Fines: $.05/day

So how do I find what I want?

Use the OPAC online catalog

What’s offered at your libraryin ONLINE DATABASES

26 Online databases—copyright protected materials such as newspaper articles, magazine articles, books, primary resources, and photographs– Location: Online– Accessible from home by password (gold sheet)

What’s offered at your libraryServices

Copy machine– Location: downstairs, by

the fire emergency door– Cost: $.10/page

Technology help Research assistance

– We’re here to help YOU, so don’t be afraid to ask for help. There are no stupid questions!!!

And now for the Scavenger Hunt!

Use only print resources and online databases. DO ask questions. Use library etiquette. The first group done or the group with the most

completed when we end will win the grand prize.