The Acc Library Quiz
This is a quiz about research skills and using library resources specific to the Arapahoe Community College Library (The Weber Center for Learning Resources), for ACC students. If you are taking this quiz as part of your class, print out or e-mail the passing certificate to your instructor. You may take this test as often as you need to pass it. For a generic quiz for all students that tests additional knowledge, see the ACC Library Information Literacy Quiz. For comments or questions about the quiz, contact librarians@arapahoe. Edu.
- 1.
To find a book that the Library owns, you go to
- A.
My ACC
- B.
The Library homepage
- C.
D2L
Correct Answer
B. The Library homepageExplanation
The Library homepage is the starting point for direct access to the Library catalog for books and the Library's subscription databases for magazine, journal, newspaper articles, Encyclopedia Britannica, topic guides, literary criticisms, and statistical information.Rate this question:
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- 2.
The ACC homepage has a link to a page where you can access the Library's resources.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
The College homepage at arapahoe.edu, and every ACC Web page, has a link to the Library in the upper-right hand corner of the page.Rate this question:
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- 3.
To find a book in the ACC Library from the Library Web page, I must use
- A.
The Catalog only
- B.
Aquabrowser only
- C.
Either one of the above
Correct Answer
C. Either one of the aboveExplanation
Both the Catalog and Aquabrowser have the same information (listings of ACC Library holdings of books and other items), but have different interfaces.Rate this question:
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- 4.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Catalog and Aquabrowser:
- A.
These catalogs list NetLibrary electronic books.
- B.
These catalogs list titles of hard copy journals, magazines, and newspapers available on the ACC Library shelves.
- C.
These catalogs provide full-text and abstracts of journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Correct Answer
C. These catalogs provide full-text and abstracts of journals, magazines, and newspapers.Explanation
The Catalog and Aquabrowser access the Library's books, videos, DVDs, but not articles. For articles you must use one of the article databases such as EBSCOhost or ProQuest. However, the Catalog or Aquabrowser will list titles of journals, magazines, and newspapers that are carried in hard copy in the ACC Library.Rate this question:
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- 5.
The most current book under the subject of mental depression that can be checked out of the ACC Library’s shelves is
- A.
Depression and Physical Illness
- B.
The Loss of Sadness
- C.
Beating the Blues
Correct Answer
C. Beating the BluesExplanation
The easiest way to find the most recently-published book in the ACC Library Catalog is select the subject option in the Catalog or Aquabrowser (by default the books and other items are listed alphabetically by title). Notice that this question asks for book available on the shelf--not electronic books (which are only available online) and not videos or DVDs, which are intermixed in the results list.Rate this question:
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- 6.
In your list of results of books in the ACC Library catalog, you see a book that is designated as Available Online. Which of the following is NOT true:
- A.
It is an electronic book (e-book) available from NetLibrary.com or by clicking Online Books on the Library homepage
- B.
It is a book only available at National Academies Press or Project Gutenberg
- C.
One of the ways you can access the e-book is from home by first creating a password on an ACC computer
Correct Answer
B. It is a book only available at National Academies Press or Project GutenbergExplanation
If you are trying to access an electronic book from home but have not created a password on campus for NetLibrary, contact the Library and you will be provided a password. Free e-books are available on National Academies Press (nap.edu) and Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org/wiki), a few of which may be included in the NetLibrary collection.Rate this question:
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- 7.
I can find journal articles in
- A.
EBSCOhost
- B.
NewsBank
- C.
CQ Researcher
Correct Answer
A. EBSCOhostExplanation
CQ Researcher (and Facts on File) are excellent databases for selecting topics and getting background information. NewsBank provides newspaper articles from around the nation, including full-text New York Times articles (the journal databases will only list abstracts--summaries--of New York Times articles.)Rate this question:
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- 8.
Find this article in the ProQuest database: “Twitter Takes a Trip to College; Students and professors use the micro-blogging service to communicate inside and outside the classroom." The source of this article is a
- A.
Scholarly journal
- B.
Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal
- C.
News magazine
Correct Answer
C. News magazineExplanation
ProQuest includes information that the source is a news publication. You can restrict your results to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals by checking off a box when you enter your search, or by selecting scholarly journals from the results list. Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals are preferred for citing top-level information. You can use magazine and newspaper articles for background information and to familiarize yourself with a topic, and for brand new devlopments in an issue, but always try to cite scholarly articles when possible.Rate this question:
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- 9.
In the above ProQuest-displayed article, under Indexing (Document Details), name the second subject the article is classified under (the first one is marketing).
- A.
College students
- B.
Colleges & universities
- C.
Social networks
Correct Answer
C. Social networksExplanation
Many journal articles in ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and the other databases are categorized under official subject headings (a "controlled vocabulary"). By clicking these other subjects you will be given a list of more articles under that specific subject. A controlled vocabulary means subjects are precisely worded, such as "cellular telephones" instead of cell phones. You will still get results by using the search term keyword cell phones, but you may get better results using the official subjec heading of cellular telephones.Rate this question:
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- 10.
A password available from the Library is necessary to access from your home computer the following:
- A.
The Library catalog
- B.
Journal article and other databases
- C.
Both a and b
Correct Answer
B. Journal article and other databasesExplanation
The ACC Library catalog is accessible by anyone without a password. Most of the ACC databases can be accessed off-campus with a password obtainable from the Library.Rate this question:
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