1. WELCOME TO WASHINGTON
ACADEMY'S
LARSON LIBRARY
Library Orientation--Part 1

2. LIBRARY EXPECTATIONS
The Larson Library is a place that belongs
to everyone: students, teachers, and
staff. There are rules about how you act in
the library in order to help make it a
pleasant and useful place for everyone
to visit.

3. SIGN IN/OUT PROCEDURES
● Sign out of study hall/classroom
● Sign in/out at circulation desk
○ first and last name
○ time in/out
○ bathroom, locker (only one student at a
time)
● All students must sign out and go directly back
to study hall
○ violation of this policy will result in not
being allowed to come to the library for
one week

4. BE COURTEOUS AND CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS
● Speak in a quiet voice (whisper)
● Act Safely
● Take care of shared materials and shared space
○ return materials on time
○ return and push in chairs
○ keep feet off furniture
● Conserve paper and place used paper in
recycling bins
● Warning: If you have trouble following the
rules and expected behaviors, your teacher
or librarian will remind you of them.
However, if you still have trouble following
the rules, you will be asked to leave.

5. LIBRARY PASSES
● Students may obtain library passes from the
following people:
○ classroom teacher
○ librarian
● Pass Schedule
○ Monday: Seniors
○ Tuesday: Juniors
○ Wednesday: Sophomores
○ Thursday: Freshmen
○ Friday: Seniors
● Any student needing a pass for academic
purposes will be given a pass from their teacher
or librarian

6. MATERIALS SIGN OUT PROCEDURE
● All students are required to sign out library materials/books
from the librarian
○ student ID number
○ automated system
● Books
○ two weeks
○ renew if needed for a longer period of time
■ due date in back of book
○ two books out at any give time
■ special permission for more may be granted
● Magazines (periodicals)
○ overnight
○ sign out sheet: your name, date, title,
month/year of publication
● Non-circulating: reference, newspapers
○ do not leave the library

7. COMPUTERS, INTERNET ACCESS, & PRINTING
● 7 desktops, 20 Chromebooks available every day
○ unless being used for classroom use
● Chromebooks do not leave the library without
permission
● Chromebooks must be signed in/out each period with
the librarian
● Personal laptops, iPads, etc
○ see Mrs. Harrington for Internet connection
registration in IA building
● All computers require a username and password
○ Raider #1raider
○ Library #1raider
● Printer

8. HOW DO I FIND WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR?
● Periodical (magazines, newspapers)
● Videos, DVDs
● Scissors, tape, stapler, paper punch, markers, colored
pencils
● Computers
● Books (see location tags)
○ non-fiction
■ Dewey-Decimal System
○ fiction
■ FIC plus first 3 letter of author's last
name
○ biography
■ 92 plus name or first 3 letters of last name

9. HOW DOES THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM WORK?
● 10 broad categories
● These divisions help decide where a book "belongs" in the
Dewey Decimal system, and helps us find a book on the shelf.
● 000 Computers, information, & general reference
● 100 Philosophy & psychology
● 200 Religion
● 300 Social Sciences
● 400 Language
● 500 Science
● 600 Technology
● 700 Arts & Recreation
● 800 Literature
● 900 History & Geography

10. WHAT IS AN ALMANAC?
An annual publication
● weather forecasts
● farmers' planting dates
● astronomical information
● tide table
● containing tabular information in a particular field
or fields often arrange according to the
calendar, etc.

11. WHAT IS A THESAURUS?
● Thesaurus: a book/online source that lists words often
used when writing
○ grouped together according to similarity of meaning
■ containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms
■ in contrast to a dictionary
■ contains definitions and pronunciations
○ largest thesaurus in the world
■ historical thesaurus of the Oxford
English Dictionary
■ contains more than 920,000 words

12. WHAT IS AN ATLAS?
● A collection of maps
○ typically a map of the Earth
○ a region of Earth
○ other planets (and their satellites) in the solar system.
● Atlases have traditionally been bound in to book form, but
today many atlases are in multimedia formats
● In addition to presenting geographic features
and political boundaries
○ many atlases often feature geopolitical,
social, religious and economic statistics

13. WHAT IS A BOOK OF QUOTES?
● Words that are worthy of being quoted...
● Famous people, government officials

14. HOW TO ACCESS THE WA LIBRARY WEB PAGE
●http://www.washingtonacademy.org
●WA Students
●Library Resources

15. WHAT IS NETIQUETTE? (PART 2)
●The do's and don'ts of using Internet Etiquette!
Cyber Statistics

16. RULE #1
●Remember the person
○Golden Rule: Do unto others as you'd have others do to
you
○Think about others and how you would feel if you were in
their shoes
○Be careful not to misinterpret what the writer is saying
●Remember would you say it to the person's face
●Remember nothing is never really private
on the Internet
○Once your words are out there, you do
not have control over them

17. RULE #2
●Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you
follow in real life
●Be ethical
○plagiarism, pay for shareware, breaking copyright laws

18. RULE #3
●Know where you are in cyberspace
○Netiquette varies from domain to domain
■What is perfectly acceptable in one area may be
dreadfully rude in another
■Facebook vs. Online Class Discussion
○Lurk before you leap
■Take a look around before joining chat rooms
■Get a sense of who the people are
■Never give out personal information

19. RULE #4
●Make yourself look good online
○You will be judged by the quality of your writing
○Pay attention to the content of your writing
○Don't post flame-bait
■"Flaming" is what people do when they express a
strongly held opinion without holding back any emotion
■Be pleasant and polite
■Don't use offensive language
■--no swearing
■Don't be confrontational for the sake
of confrontation

20. RULE #5
●Respect other people's privacy
○Don't read other people's email/text messages
○Don't hack their social networks

21. RULE #6
Never give out the following information when online:
●full name
●home address
●phone number
●social security number
●passwords
●names of family members
●credit card numbers

22. RULE #7
● Think carefully before creating a username, password,
or email address
○ should include letters and numbers
○ generally should not include your name if possible
● Virtual friends should stay in the virtual world!
○ never make arrangements to meet someone you do
not know
○ never send pictures or give out personal
information
● What to do about virtual friends that make you
feel uncomfortable
○ report to your parents
○ report to chat website/police/school officials

23. RULE #8
● Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass,
or target another person. Online threats, rude texts, or messages
count. So does posting personal information or videos designed to
hurt or embarrass someone else.
● In some situations, cyberbullying is considered harassment.
Intimidation or mean comments that focus on things
like a person's gender, religion, sexual orientation,
race, or physical differences fall into this category.
● Whether it's done in person or online, this type
of meanness counts as discrimination and is
against the law in many states. That means law
enforcement could get involved, and bullies may
face serious penalties.

24. CONT...
● Cyberbullying also includes posts or pages that don't get
taken down, even after the person has been asked to do so.
In other words, it's anything that stays online for a while and
is deliberately intended to hurt.
● Sometimes, what seems like online harassment may be
accidental. The impersonal nature of text messages,
IMs, and emails makes it very hard to detect a
sender's tone. What one person means as a joke
could be a devastating insult to someone else.

25. WHAT TO DO?
●Not just strangers can make you feel uncomfortable
○1st step: try to ignore it--don't respond
○2nd step: if ignoring it doesn't make it stop--GET HELP!
○If a friend is cyberbullying--talk to them about the
impact/consequences of what they are doing
○Report them if they do not stop

26. RULE #9
●Watch out for hackers
○Hackers often access our email
■Spam you--careful of advertisements
■Clean out your cookies
■Don't recognize the email--don't open it--may be a virus
■Software--Virus/Spyware
■Don't share your passwords with anyone
but your parents
Internet Safety Video

27. WHAT IS PLAGIARISM? (PART 3)
●Using someone else's work and calling it your own
○Internet
○Book
○Picture
○A friend's paper
○Purchasing a written paper
○A friend writes your own paper
○Using your own paper from a previous class

28. HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM?
● Always give credit to the person you are borrowing the
information from to write your paper
● Create a Works Cited page with corresponding in-text citations

29. WHAT IF I SUMMARIZE?
● Unless it is your own thought, idea, etc. you must use an in-
text citation and include the reference on the Works Cited
page!
● Plagiarism occurs when sources are not mentioned even if it is
unintentional. When in doubt...CITE!

30. HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO CITE?
● Quotations: exact words
● The ideas, opinions, or theories of someone else--evein if you
put it into your own words (summarize)
● Facts and statistics--unless they are common knowledge and
are accessible in many sources
○ Examples: 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust
○ Empire State Building is 1,454 feet tall
○ Civil War ended in 1865

31. FIVE W'S OF WEBSITE EVALUATION
● All resources must be valid and reliable
● Remember you can't believe everything you read on
the Internet!
● Websites that are filled with spelling errors or typos
would not be considered valid and reliable!

32. WHO?
● Who wrote the pages and are they an expert?
○ Is a biography of the author included?
○ How can you find out more about the author?

33. WHAT?
● What does the author say is the purpose of the site?
● What else might the author have in mind for the site?
● What makes the site easy to use?

34. WHEN?
● When was the site created?
● When was it last updated?

35. WHERE?
● Where does the information come from?
● Where can I look to find out more about the
producer/sponsor?

36. WHY?
● Why is this information useful for my purpose?
● Why should I use this information?
● Why is this page better than another?

37. LIBRARY WEB PAGE
Washington Academy Web Page
1.www.washingtonacademy.org
2.WA students
3.Library Resources

38. WORKS CITED
● Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976): 46-47.
● Nordquist, Richard. "Paraphrase--Definition and Examples
of Paraphrase." Grammar and composition--Homepage of About
Grammar and Competition. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.
● VanderMey, Randal. "Summary--Definition and Examples of
Summary." Grammar and Composition--Homepage of About
Grammar and Composition. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.