Library Words
Check Out: Use your card to take books or other items home.
Due Date: Please bring books back before this day.
Check In: We make sure books coming back are okay so other people can use them.
Overdue: When you bring a book back after the Due Date.
Fine: Every day a book is Overdue, you must pay five cents, twenty-five cents, or one dollar.
Catalog: A Web page (LINKcat) that lets you see what we have and what you have checked out.
Renew: You can keep a book longer if you call or use the Catalog.
Hold: Get a book from the Catalog that is not here right now.
Interlibrary Loan: Get books that are not in our Catalog.
Fiction: Made-up stories.
Nonfiction: Real life stories and facts.
Audiobook: Someone else reads the book to you! May come on CD, MP3, or computer.
E-book: Read or listen to a book on your phone or computer!