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30 Cards in this Set
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What do you look for during the new book inspection?
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Physical defects such as uncut signatures.
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Why must you take care opening a new book the first time?
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To avoid damaging the spine.
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What's included in the ownership stamp added to a library book?
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Library name and address.
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Where are ownership stamps usually applied?
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Along the top, front or bottom edge of book; title page, inside front cover, or inside back cover; pockets in manual system.
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What's used to apply a unique identifier for each item in the collection?
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Accession stamp or accession number. May also be assigned by the OPAC cataloguing system.
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Why must there be some way to have each item in the library have a unique identity?
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So the items can be tracked by different borrowers and not confused.
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What is added to the book in some libraries to advise borrowers of when items are due?
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Cards, pockets, or date due slips.
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How is the shelf location for each item in the collection identified?
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With a spine tab that contains the call number.
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How is a call number added to a book?
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With a label or originally, by engraving on a cloth bound book.
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What may be added to a book during processing to protect its surface?
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Protective coverings of some sort.
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What's the advantage to using cloth labels over paper labels?
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Cloth is more durable.
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What's the advantage of using foil back labels?
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They're more pliable or bend easier over curved surfaces and stick better to cloth or shiny finishes.
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What's the advantage of using paper labels?
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They're the least expensive and are still smudge resistant.
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What's a genre label?
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A label that identifies a book's genre, such as science fiction or romance.
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What's a monograph?
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Any single printed item that's not part of a series, such as a picture book.
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What's the definition of a book?
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A collection of 48 or more pages that are bound together and have a title.
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What's the definition of an e-book?
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A book that's in an electronic format.
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What's a book jacket or dust jacket?
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A protective covering, usually colorful, that's over a hardcover book.
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What's trade binding?
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A durable type of binding given books sold through traditional places, such as a book store.
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What's library binding?
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A more durable binding, usually sewn in place, given to books intended for heavy usage in a library.
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What's spiral binding?
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Coil binding, such as is found on cookbooks or music books, so they will stay in place when opened.
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What's adhesive binding?
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The glue binding that holds paperback books together.
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What's permabound binding?
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A process of fusing heavy plastic material to a paperback book to make it more durable--the spine is often sewn in place as well.
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What's a hard cover book?
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A book with a cover made of heavy cardboard and covered with cloth or leather or some similar material.
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What's the signature of a book?
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A folded printed sheet of book pages. The sheet is folded, then cut to make pages.
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What's a folio?
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Sheet folded once to make 2 leaves, or 4 pages.
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What's a quarto?
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Sheet folded twice to make 4 leaves or 8 pages.
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What's an octavo?
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Sheet folded three times to make 8 leaves, or 16 pages.
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What's the most commonly used signature?
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The Octavo.
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Where should spine tabs be placed on an item?
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At the same height on all books (bottom is preferable as all books will "line up" then on the shelf).
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