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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Library Skills 2015

Choosing the Right Book

L.I. Matching questions to book titles
Looking for keywords in a question

Here is a list of some books you might find in the non-fiction section of a library:


Which of the books would you use to find out:

1. How many people live in NZ - Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue

2. Which special stamps were issued in New Zealand in 1992 - Yearbook of Population.

3. How to look after a puppy - Caring for pets

4. Where the custom of Easter Eggs came from - Dictionary of Customs and Fables

5. The date of the Wahine disaster - Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates

6. Which records were broken at the last Olympic Games - Encyclopedia of Athletics

7. The size of Noah’s Ark - The Bible

8. The speed of the first aircraft to fly under power - A History of Flight

9. The story of how the first under four-minute mile was run - Guinness Book of Records

10.  How the Greeks used a wooden horse to enter the city of Troy - Myths and Legends

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