READ Collection Treasure Hunt

The following questions have been developed to help you learn about the READ Collection and the library's Public Access Catalog (PAC), known as Hawai`i Voyager. If these questions are part of an HawCC reading class assignment, please print out the questions, answer them, and hand them into your teacher. You will need to scan the whole READ Collection Web site to answer all of the questions. In addition, you will also need to utilize the link to Hawai`i Voyager to find a few answers. The search for answers might take awhile, but you should also find it an interesting and informative set of activities. Have a pleasant time. (treasure hunt last updated: 1-17-01)

1. What is the Internet address (http://)

of the READ Collection home page? _________________________ 


2. What are the major categories for the READ Collection. There are only 7 categories; one has two parts.

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3. Identify each category by definition:

 

• traditional stories about different people and their cultures: _____________________

 

• books about someone: _______________________________________

 

• books based on facts--history, how-to-do-it manuals, etc: _____________

 

• books based on imagination like novels, etc: ____________________
  
  
  
• writing that uses rhythm, meaning or sound to convey an image:______________________ 
  
  
  
• writing that is short enough to combine into a collection:_____________________________

 

4. How have the books in each category been arranged? _______________________

 

5. Who is the author of a mythology book

with the title, Why Snails Have Shells? _____________________________

 

6. What is the date of publication for the collection of short stories
   Good Scent from a Strange Mountain? ________

 

7. What is the complete title of a novel (fiction) that starts with the word Blue? What is the book about?

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8. What island does the author of the novel,

Talking to the Dead, write about?_________________ 


9. Where is the woman from who tells her story

in the novel, In Search of Bernabe? ________________

 

10. A Hawaiian mythology book's title includes an item that is used with canoes. What is the title?

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11. When was the thriller (fiction),

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, first published? ________________

 

12. Who invaded the Philippines

in the novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept? ________________

 

13. What animal is The Yearling (fiction) about? ____________________

You must utilize Hawai`i Voyager to find the answers to the rest of these questions. You can access Hawai`i Voyager from the computers on the main floor of the Mookini Library or via the Web from the link below or at the bottom of any of the READ Collection lists.

14. How would you search Hawai`i Voyager if you have some words from a book's title?

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In order to answer the following questions, go the library's home page using the link READ Collection Access to Hawai`i Voyager . Select Hawai`i Voyager. Be sure to SET LIMITS to search only the location, UH Hilo Read Collection.

15. Do a guided key word search for the novel,

Under the Blood Red Sun. What is the location of the book?___________________

 

16. What is the Library of Congress call number
    for the biography, Fifth Chinese Daughter? ________________

     

17. Does Kona (the UH Center at West Hawaii)

have a copy of the 1988 edition of the nonfiction book, Tsunami!, by Walter Dudley?________________

 

18. If the READ Collection copy of the novel, My Antonia,

is checked out, which other floor of our library (UHH) might have the 1997 edition?
(Note: do NOT include the information for the PAPERBACK entry) ____________________________

 

19. Where else in Mookini (UHH) Library  besides the READ Collection

can you find the 1988 edition of the fiction book, All I Asking For Is My Body?
(Note: do NOT nclude the information for the PAPERBACK entry) ____________________________

 

20. How many copies does our library (UHH) have of the 1948 edition of the fiction book, Cry the Beloved Country?
    
    (Note: do NOT include the information for the PAPERBACK entry) ____________________________