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7th library vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| believable, trustworthy | credible |
| biased | one-sided, prejudiced |
| a book, usually published annually containing facts and statistics | almanac |
| a collection of maps | atlas |
| listing of sources used | bibliography |
| AND, OR, NOT = words used to expand or narrow a search | Boolean operators |
| online public access catalog or a listing of materials in the library | OPAC |
| the information needed to track down a book or article | citation |
| to give credit to the original source | cite |
| a researchable collection of information such as Infohio | Database |
| a set of reference books containing articles on a wide-variety of topic | encyclopedia |
| copying someone else's words or ideas without giving them credit | plagiarism |
| material that provides first-hand accounts of events - diary, speech, photo, newspaper articles from the time | primary source |
| the section of the library containing large books (dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedia) with facts | Reference section |
| a book about a person's life | biography |
| a book a person writes about his or her own life | autobiography |
| restate in your own words | paraphrase |
| informational, true text dealing with real-life, actual subjects | nonfiction |
| fiction | imaginative narrative made-up by the author |
| Dewey Decimal Classification system | Library organization system in which books are organized by subject |