AY Honors/Librarianship/Requirements
Skill Level
2
Year
2012
Version
22.12.2024
Approval authority
South American Division
1. What is librarianship?
2. What is the function of a professional librarian?
3. Define the following processes:
- a. Loan
- b. Return
- c. Revalidation
4. Know the basic parts of a book.
5. Know what the criteria used to categorize books in a library.
6. Visit two or more libraries and discover the following:
- a. How do you do a topical book search?
- b. How are the organizational processes of books developed?
- c. How are searches complemented with help from the internet or magazines?
7. Know where to get new and used books.
8. Present a list with 5 suggestions of books in each of the following categories and write detailed information about these books:
- a. Religious literature
- b. Children's literature
- c. Youth literature
- d. Scientific literature
9. In accordance with the technical regulations of the country (or international regulations), cite two bibliographic references of two examples in each of the following articles:
- a. Books
- b. Magazines
- c. Web pages
- d. Dictionary
10. What is a digital library?
11. What is a futuristic library?
12. Design and implement a reading project in your club/unit and evaluate the results.
13. Start a book donation campaign and help create or increase the club's library collection. This library must contain at least:
- a. Ten scientific or general knowledge books
- b. Fifteen magazines
- c. Five Pathfinder manuals
- d. Fifteen Spirit of Prophecy books
- e. Five books useful for completing classwork or honors
- f. Ten books about other interesting topics
