Monarch High School
Media Center Online Orientation
Knights Seminar WebQuest:
Conquer the Information Age!
KNIGHTLY CHALLENGE #2: Locating Books in the Online Card Catalog
Monarch’s online catalog, SAVVYCAT, is the key to finding just the book you need from among the 15,000 in our collection.
Directions:
1. Open another browser window and navigate to these directions.
2. In one browser widow go to the MHS Media Center home page, www.monarchknights.com/Mediacenter/index.htm click on the Library Catalogs link then on the SAVVYCAT link. Keep the other window open at all times to the directions.
3. Perform a keyword search for one subject from the list below.
* Football * Music
* Body Art * Immigration
* Fashion * Planets
4. Read the screen,write down the title and call number of a book from this subject search.(That’s the group of numbers and letters on the white label on the spine of the book). If the call number contains an “F” the book is fiction. If the call number contains a number, the book is non-fiction. If the call number begins with “R”, it is located in the Reference section of the library. If the call number begins with "B" it is located in the Biography section of the library. (Non-fiction books are organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification System by subject. No matter what library you go into, all non-fiction books are organized the same way.)
SPINE LABEL WITH CALL NUMBER
5. Next, perform a keyword search by selecting an author from the list below. How many books does the library have by the author? Enter the information on your paper. (Example: Our media center has 2 books written by Joe Schmoe.)
* Sharon Draper * Walter Dean Myers
* Caroline Cooney * Darren Shan
* James Patterson * Karen Hesse
6. Perform a title search for one of the books below. Then, write down the title and call number on your paper.
* The Baseball Timeline * Hip Hop Culture
* Shakespeare's Globe * Hurricanes: a Reference Handbook
* American Women in Technology
7. Find this book on the shelf and write the Barcode # of this book on your paper. (The barcode is on the front of the book, Example: Barcode #3354100012345). Put the book back in place on the shelf.
8. In your Knights Seminar class you will use books on careers. Even though these books are non-fiction, they are located in a special part of the library at the beginning of the non-fiction books. Find the career section then find a book on a career from your Discovery list. Locate the book and write down the citation of the book on your paper.
9. Turn your paper in to Mrs. Gil or Ms. Smoot.
Congratulations! You have successfully completed Knightly Challenge #2 and earned another KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.