Welcome to another Meet the Collection Monday! Today I'm highlighting the Juvenile and Young Adult Reference collections. The juvenile reference collection is located on the shelves to the right and left of the Children's Reference Desk, and the young adult collection is behind and to the left of the Young Adult Desk on the second floor of the library. These are books you can use while in the library, but you cannot check them out and take them home. You get to browse through them, photocopy them, and leave them for someone else to peruse. The books in the reference collection are often the starting point of research projects for kids of all ages, therefore we stock the most current and relevant books possible.
Some of the most popular books in the collections include the
World Book Encyclopedias and
Guinness World Records. Kids love to browse these books! There are also some fantastic resources in the juvenile collection for local and state reports, including
The Portland Bridge Book and
Tigardville: A History of Tigard.
Students working on science fair projects will find our
Junior Science Experiments On File endlessly useful, as well as our other science-related encyclopedias. And there's always
Experiment Central in the young adult collection for the more advanced scientist.
Explore the reference collections to learn about eras in history from the
middle ages to the
beatniks. Look up words in dictionaries or expand your vocabulary with
thesauruses (Thesaurusi? Thesaurus Rex?) From
world culture to
literary movements, the potential for learning is endless!
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