Introducing The Fay School Library Catalog

What is a catalog?

NO! What is a Library Catalog?

What is a

Library Catalog?

Our catalog is a computer program that holds information about all the books and materials that you will find in our library.

You use it to look for books by The Title

The Title

You use it to look for books by The Author’s Name Tomie dePaola

The Author’s Name

You use it to look for books by The Subject

The Subject

How do I type in my search words?

CAPITAL LETTERS Don’t Need Them! RULE #1 My Father’s Dragon my father’s dragon

CAPITAL LETTERS

Don’t Need Them!

The Words The or A Don’t Need Them! RULE #2 A Bad Case of the Stripes bad case of stripes

The Words The or A

Don’t Need Them!

USE PUNCTUATION You DO Need Them! RULE #3 charlottes web charlotte’s web

USE PUNCTUATION

You DO Need Them!

SPELL CORRECTLY RULE #4 hary poter and prizner of akbanan harry potter and prisoner of azkaban

SPELL CORRECTLY

What do you do when a title is really, really, really, really, really, really long?

alexander terrible

How do I search an Author’s Name? Jack Prelutsky

jack prelutsky

How do I search a Subject? Saturn

saturn