Name:_________________________________________

ASSIGNMENT TWELVE: SPECIALIZED COLLECTIONS

1. In the Career Information Collection (by the Atlas case) use the OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK (Career HF 5382 .A2) to find a description of a career that interests you. Give the name and address of one source of additional information regarding that career:

    ________________________________________________________________

    ________________________________________________________________

2. In the Article Indexes and Databases page, "CollegeSource" allows you to access the catalogues and websites of over 13,000 colleges and universities.  Select any one college or university (except BSU or University of Idaho) and:

    A. Specify the school name: ____________________________________

    B. Name the president of the school: ______________________________
 

3. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: The answers to the following questions can be found at http://library.boisestate.edu/special on the link for Rare Books.

    A. What is the title of the oldest book in Albertsons Library? _______________________________

    B. What year was the copy in Albertsons Library published?  _____________________________
 

CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTER: The answers for questions 4 - 7 can be found by searching the catalog ( http://voyager.boisestate.edu/) or on the Library's Home Page under Books, e-Books, Media.  (In the Basic Search option you can use Set Limits to select the location or item type that you want to search.  Refer to Chapter 4 for a refresher on working with the catalog).

4. Give the title of a CD by the Beatles in the CRC collection.
    _________________________________________________________________


5. Find any book by William Faulkner that is a sound recording on audio cassette. Give the title of one. 
    _______________________________________________________________

6. In the CRC, many books are shelved using the Dewey Decimal classification system. A Dewey call number looks something like 940 K964, where the first number denotes the subject of the book and is followed by a letter/number combination.

Fiction titles will either have a Dewey Decimal call number, or: j (for juvenile) or ya (for young adult) followed by fic and the first three letters of the author's name, (for example: j fic Bro)."

Look up the following titles in the catalog and write their call numbers below:

    Where's Waldo  ____________________________________________

    Love among the Hiccups _________________________________ 

    Arnie the Doughnut   ________________________________________

    Meet Matisse __________________________________________

7. Locate any one of the 3 titles below using the CRC call numbers which are arranged by the subject, grade level and publisher:

    Wellness Activities for Youth (crc HEALTH Elem. & Sec. Whole Person)

    Ape [videorecording] (crc SCIENCE Elem. & Sec. DK Vision)

    Snapshot: America discovers the camera (crc US HIST. Sec. (6-9) Lerner)
 

Take it to the counter and have a CRC staff person initial here ________________

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