Unit 7 at the library

BEFORE READING: Is there a library at your University? How often do you go there? What are the main departments of this library? What collection and materials does it contain? What do you like and dislike about this library?

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES:: Task1 : Choose the correct meaning of the word:

1. A bibliography is: a) a book

b) a story about your past

c) a list

2. A reference is: a) an essay

b) an indicator

c) a place

3. A manuscript is: a) a science

b) information

c) composition

4. A catalog is: a) complete enumeration of items

b) a specific feature

c) an argument

5. A volume is: a) a big amount of smth.

b) a considerable quantity

c) a printed report

6. A copy is: a) an idea

b) a certificate

c) a reproduction of smth original

TASK 2 Read and translate the text:

Dealing with scientific research you can’t imagine without library services. Usually a big scientific library has various departments and desks to make your work there more efficient and convenient. A Circulation Desk is a library department where readers can borrow books. An Information Services Department with electronic and card catalogues is always able to give you the required data about the library services. There is also a Periodical Department, a Rare Books Department, and Manuscripts Department. Items in these special collections may not be checked out but are available for study on site by anyone with a need to use them. Copy machines are provided in libraries so that students may make copies of extracts from library books and periodicals for research or private study.

Library staff assists reader in many important ways. In addition to reference help, they prepare subject bibliographies, offer bibliographic instructions, library tours and prepare and circulate monthly lists of recent acquisitions. Searching of information for research papers and other projects need not to be difficult. If you follow a plan in your research for information –“ a search strategy”` - you will be able to find what you need with greater efficiency. Librarians also can help readers in planning the searching strategy for finding the best information available on their topics. The libraries also have Request and Reservation services with acces to the Interlibrary Loan Department.

POST-TEXT EXERCISES:

TASK 1 Complete the sentences below using the words from the box:

catalog library bibliography references volume copy

1. Our local ...... has a rich collection of scientific literature.

2. It’s obligatory to have an original document, not a .....

3. This invention will be included into International.....

4. Have you made the ......of works used in your thesis?

5. Don’t forget to make .....in your research.

6. I need to find the second..... of the encyclopedia.

TASK 2 Explain the difference between the words:

1. a subject catalog - an alphabetic catalog;

2. an edition - a volume;

3. a dictionary - a vocabulary;

4. a title – a headline;

5. a book - a text book.

TASK 3 Fill in the blanks with the necessary words:

1.Library ... assist readers in many important ways. information

2. Making research you can’t do without library..................................on site

3.Items in Rare Department may not be checked out but are services

available for study Circulation Desk

4. .........is a department where readers can borrow books.

5. This library provides a quiete working ........... staff

6. A search strategy means following plan in your search for........ Interlibrary Loan

Department

7. Do you have the acces to......... ? environment

TASK 4 Read the supplementary text and discuss it:

Books, I believe, may be divided into three classes:

1. books to read;

2. books to re-read;

3. books not to read at all.

The third class is most important. To tell people what to read, is, as a rule, either useless or harmfull. But to tell people what not to read is a very different matter.

It is indeed necessary in this age of ours, an age that reads so much, that it has no time to admire, and writes so much that it has no time to think. Whoever will select “ The Worst Hundred Books” and publish a list of them will give the rising generation a real and lasting service. ( After O.Wild)

Answer the questions:

1.Do you agree that the list of the “Worst Hundred Books” may be usefull?

2.How do you choose a book to read?

3.What books do you re-read?

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5.Neufeld J.K. A Handbook for Technical Communication. –Englewood:Prentice Hall Regents.

6. Winkler A.C., McCuen J.R. Writing the Research Paper/ A handbook. San Diego, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1985. – 284p.

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