Review Questions for Library Orientation

Name______Instructor______Date______

Log on to the HU library home page [www.howard.edu/library] to complete the following exercises.

List the steps you would take to find the answer to each of the following:

  1. An undergraduate student may borrow a regular book for how many weeks?
  1. What are the Sunday hours for the Media Center?
  1. How can you take an online tour of The Founders Library and the Undergraduate Library?
  1. Is the library offering a class on searching electronic databases to find magazine and journal articles?

b) 

  1. Where in The Founders Library can you find vol. 3 of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, which was published in 1996?

6. How can you find a magazine or journal article about “the U.S. immigration policies

toward Haitians” in one of the online computer databases to which the library subscribes?

f) 

First, display the library online catalog, Sterling; then, complete the following exercises.

7. What is the name of one book written by Betty Smith (1896-1972)?

______

8. Search by Keywords to find a book about Howard University that has the word

Capstone in the title. List the title below.

Title:______

You must physically come to The Founders and the Undergraduate Libraries to complete items 9 and 10.

9. First, find the book with this call number in the stacks in The Founders Library; then
fill in the blank.

Call number: BL 1405 G3

“The Nature of Buddhist ______” begins on page 44.

10. Find the issue of the New York Times on microfilm that was issued on the day your

mother or father was born.

What was a major news story of that day?

______

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