Review of library terminology for elementary students.

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4. Name of a book,
movie, song, etc.

5. What is a
title?

6. Person that draws
the pictures for a
book, magazine, etc.

7. Who is an
illustrator?

8. An alphabetical list of
important words from a
nonfiction book with
definitions to help the
reader understand the text.
It’s often in front of the
index.

9. What is a
glossary?

10. A list of resources
arranged
alphabetically by
author and title.

11. What is a
bibliography?

12. A fundraising
event in school
libraries, in which
you can buy books!

13. What is a book
fair?

14. Writer of a book,
play, article or
poem

15. Who is an author?

16. One of the people in
a story, book, play,
movie or TV
program

17. What is a
character?

18. A book used when
writing which
contains synonyms
and antonyms to
make wording more
interesting.

19. What is a
thesaurus?

20. One book of a set,
such as one book in
a set of
encyclopedias.

21. What is a
volume?

22. A journal or
magazine that is
published at regular
intervals most often
once a week or once
a month

23. What is a
periodical?

24. Stories about
characters and
events that are not
real.

25. What is fiction?

26. Company that
produces and sends
out books and other
media to stores

27. Who is a
publisher?

28. The page to look for
in any book that will
have the title, author,
publisher and city of
publication (This is useful
when creating your bibliography)

29. What is the
Title Page?

30. An introduction to a
book, movie, poem or
other work, also called a
preface.

31. What is a
foreward or
prologue?

32. A point in a number that
separates the whole
number from the
fractional part – this
point is also used in the
Dewey System to make
subgroups.

33. What is a
decimal?

34. Writing that is not
made-up, it
contains facts and
information about a
topic.

35. What is nonfiction?

36. A list in the front of a
book that has topics
or chapters in a book
in order by page
numbers.

37. What is the
contents?

38. A book of
maps.

39. What is an
atlas?

40. The second, less
important title of a
book, movie, song, etc.
often it will explain a bit
about the work.

41. What is a subtitle?

42. A collection of related
records or information,
stored on a computer and
organized to make any
part of it accessible by
typing in a keyword.

43. What is a
database?

44. A written account
of a person’s life

45. What is a
biography?

46. An alphabetical list in
the back of a book of
topics or subjects
contained in a book with
page numbers to locate
them.

47. What is an
index?

48. A reference book that
contains over a
million facts and is
NOT arranged
alphabetically.

49. What is an
almanac?

50. One of the many
databases or other online
resources free to Kansas
kids – thanks to the state.

51. What is MANGO
Student Reference
Center, Britannica,
Novelist or … (many
others)?

52. The name of our
library catalog
database

53. What is
Alexandria
Researcher?

54. The last name of the
librarian that devised
the classification system
for library materials

55. Who was
Dewey?

56. Area of the library
with aids for
finding
information
(such as enclyclopedias, atlases and almanacs)

57. What is reference?

58. A law that protects a
published work from
unauthorized use

59. What is
copyright?

60. A regular customer of a
store or a regular visitor at
a library that enjoys
checking out materials or
using services such as
Internet or WiFi access.

61. What is a patron?

62. Restricting access to
materials deemed
objectionable – pulling
books one thinks
inappropriate.
Morally, politically or religiously

63. What is censorship,
censoring or banning

64. Make your wager

65. Final Answer:
What judges evaluate
when awarding the
Caldecott Medal

66. Final Question:
What are the illustrations?
A Caldecott Award is given
annually to the best
illustrated picture book for
children.