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Welcome to the Wayne Community College

Library

Library Hours

Monday – Thursday

7:45 am - 9:00 pm

Friday

7:45 am – 4:00 pm

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or

Set to vibrate

Where’s the rest room?

Reserves

Selected by instructor

Kept at main desk

Limited circulation

Reserve Types

Room Use

Overnight

3 Day Checkout

AV Materials May Be Used

In the library

In the Academic Skills Center

In a classroom

More than 300 magazines and journals

Ask for these at the circulation desk

Genealogy

Novels and short

stories

Easy

Books

For

Kids

Big

Books

Reference

Reference books may be

• Almanacs

• Atlases

• Dictionaries

• Encyclopedias

Books

you can

check out

The automated catalog

Your index to all the books and audiovisuals in the library

Search Everything - computer looks at:

Authors

Titles

Subject headings

Notes

The call number is an address for an item.

LB

2343.32

T95

2001

LC

LB

2343.32

T95

2001

Dewey

371.302

Com

1998

A General Works M Music

B Philosophy, Religion N Art

C-F History P Language

G Geography, Sports Q Science

H Social Sciences S Agriculture

J Political Science T Technology

K Law U Military Science

L Education V Naval Science

Z Library Science

Anatomy of a Call Number

LB First line—letters

2343.32 Second line--numbers

T95 Third line—letter & number

The number is a decimal

21-Day Check Out21-Day Check Out

Fiction

Oversized

Juvenile

General Collection

Book Drop

Fines

• 21-day books

–10 cents per day

• 3-day reserve

–25 cents per day

• Overnight reserve

–10 cents per hour

Aardvarks

to

Zucchini

NEWS

WEATHER

E-MAIL ADDRESSES

PHONE NUMBERS

FINANCIAL

INFORMATION

RELIGION

HEALTH & MEDICAL INFORMATION

MUSEUMS & OTHER PLACES

LIBRARIES & REFERENCE RESOURCES

SHOPPING

JOB SEARCH

June 1993 130 sites

June 1994 Almost 3,000 sites

April 1998 More than 2.2 million sites

July 2002 At least 2 billion pages

FINDING WHAT YOU WANT

LINKS ARE

ROADS YOU

CAN FOLLOW

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.google.com

How valid is

information

on the web?

Opinion

vs

Reliable Sources

OPINION

*No one controls the Internet

*Anyone can post anything

*Some things are illegal

Valid Information

*Source

*Identity of author

*Location of page

http://www.nclive.org

Boolean Operators

• AND --cats AND dogs

• OR --cats OR dogs

• NOT --dogs NOT hounds

• Quotation marks

–“poodle dogs”

• Parentheses

–training AND (dogs or cats)

• Asterisk

–teach*

Advantages of NC LIVE

>Articles from more than 3000 publications

>More reliable than Web pages

Interlibrary Loan - one library borrows an item from another library for a patron to use

Interlibrary Loan Costs

Books - nonePhotocopies - may have

charges

From home you can

Check the WCC library catalog

Use NC LiveAccess links from the library

web page

The library’s purpose is to help students and other patrons find the information they need when they need it.