Library scavenger hunt

(1) What type of system is used to organize the books in the MLK Library? Briefly describe how it works.

 In MTK Library, the systems called “The Dewey Decimal Classification” and “the Library of Congress Classification” are used to organize the books.

The Dewey Decimal Classification system organizes books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easy to find any book and return it to its proper place. And once you have found a classification number for books useful to your research, browse the areas surrounding that number, as you may find other books related to your subject close by.

 The Library of Congress Classification system organizes material in libraries according to twenty-one branches of knowledge. The 21 categories (labeled A-Z except I,O,W,X and Y) are further divided by adding one or two additional letters and a set of numbers.

 (2) What is in the “Browsing Library” on the first floor?

 This area has English language following materials: new novels and nonfiction titles, feature movies and TV series in DVD and VHS formats, educational DVDs and music CDs

(3) What types of electronic databases are available in the MLK Library?

There are so many databases available especially for SJSU students, such as ProQuest and SJPL databases are available:

(4) Briefly explain how to access the library's electronic databases.

Logging in to the page. You need to make your own account in advance.

(5) List 10 daily newspapers that are available in the MLK Library.

The Mercury News, SF Chronicle, USA Today, NY Times, LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Fresno Bee, The Financial Times and The Dispatch.

(6) Give the title and call numbers of a video, DVD and CD.

Video

Title: Surprising studies of visual awareness by Daniel J. Simons.

Call number: XD0796 

CD

Title: My Name is Chicken Joe

Call Number: PENDING

DVD

Title: Anchoring Home Fuel Tanks, A Presentation of FEMA's Mitigation Division

Call Number(s): HS 5.120:F 95/DVD

(7) Find a reference book; give the title and call number, and briefly describe the type of information found in this book.

Title: Communication research measures : a sourcebook. Volume II

Call number: P91.3 .C623 2009

This book belongs to categories of research and methodology so you should be able to find how to conduct communication research.

(8) Find a DVD, CD, newspaper and book in a foreign language. Give the title and call number for each.

DVD

Title: Kids return

Call number: JPN-ENG DVD Kids

CD

Title: Glay-drive: complete best

Call Number: JPN CD POP Glay

Newspaper

Hokubei mainichi

Book

Momoko no omoshiro kenkō techō

Call number: JPN 613 Sakura

(9) List five magazines available the MLK Library.

COSMOPOLITAN

TIME

VOUGE

PEOPLE

NEWS WEEK

(10) Locate a scholarly article on John Steinbeck. Give the call number, title and author.

Call Number:

Title: The Last Knock Knock

Author: Hall, Donald

(11) Locate a book about Steinbeck. Give the call number, title and author.

Call Number: PS3537.T3234 Z715496 2009

Title: A John Steinbeck reader : essays in honor of Stephen K. George

Author: Barbara A. Heavilin.

(12) Find a book on farm labor in the California Room. Give the call number, title and author.

Call Number: REF CAL 331.89283

Title: FARM LABOR PROBLEMS

Author: Sherry, Gerard E.

(13) Find a book on San Jose in the California room. Give the call number, title and author.

Call Number: 133.1097 Lee

Title: Haunts of San Jose, California

Author: David Lee.

(14) Find a book on California minorities. Give the call number, title and author.

Call Number: Thesis HM 2004. H843

Title: California civil rights initiative and underrepresented minorities in education

Author: Qiana Houston.

(15) What is in the MLK's Cultural Heritage Center collections?

This center offers the collections including the Africana, Asian American and Chicano collections.

(16) List three things you'll find in the Center for Beethoven Studies

1. The largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe

2. A variety of educational programs and projects

3. The Guevara Lock of Beethoven's Hair

(17) What is the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine? How can you tell them apart? (2 pts.)

A scholarly journal is written in the jargon field for scholarly readers and more structured while popular magazine is written in non-technical language for anyone to understand and does not necessarily follow a specific format or structure.

(18) List five mass comm (journalism/PR/advertising) journals available in the MLK Library.

1. Monaural speech separation and recognition challenge.

2. Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models.

3. Speech fragment decoding techniques for simultaneous speaker identification and speech recognition.

4. Super-human multi-talker speech recognition: A graphical modeling approach.

5. List of reviewers.

(19) How many art installations are there in the library. Briefly describe your favorite one.

I like pictures of Snoopy on the entrance (San Fernando side).

It’s really unique to put cartoon characters on public library entrance!