Resources:
Horn Book Guide Juvenile Collection Reference/ PN 3443 .H67x
Something About the Author Juvenile Collection Reference/ PN 451 .S6 also Online.
Best Books for Beginning Readers Juvenile Collection Reference LB 1573 .G92 1997.

Lloyd Alexander Conference Room (4737) is a representation of the late Lloyd Alexander’s home office. For a tour please see Juvenile Reference Assistant in 4720 during reference hours.

Utah Authors and Illustrators Room/ Opie Collection (4724): This room houses a collection of books written or illustrated by BYU alumni or Utah residents. Materials are non-circulating, but patrons may sign in at the Juvenile Reference desk 4720 to read materials in the room. The Opie collection is microfiches that are available during reference hours.

Juvenile Locked Case (4726): This room houses pop-up, small sized, odd shaped or mature books. To check out a locked case book, ask the Assistant in the Juvenile Reference office 4720 during reference hours.

Newbery & Caldecott Winners: These books have green and blue call number labels and are for reference only. They cannot be checked out, but other copies are available for check out in the Juvenile Collection.

Sorting Shelves: When books are returned, they are brought up to their floor and put on the sorting shelves by call number before they are reshelved. If you did not find a book on the shelf, the sorting shelves are a great place to look.

Use Library Catalog to search for books of a certain genre such as historical fiction.

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. Go to the pull-down menu labeled search all and type in a term that represents the subject of your search, such as “World War II.” If you are looking for both fiction and non-fiction books go to the pull-down menu labeled location and select Juvenile Collection. Search. The newer books will be listed first.
5. Display the details for at least one item to find the official subject terms for your search. For World War II, the subject term is “World War, 1939-1945.” Use this term to refine your search.
6. To limit your search to fictional books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile fiction.” Search.
7. To limit your search to non-fiction books, go to the pull-down menu labeled subject and type “Juvenile literature.” Search.

To find websites on social studies topics:

1. Search the following search engines that are designed for use by young people using a term that represents the subject of your search:

Quintura for Kids

• Intended for use by children grades K-6.
• Quintura is a filtered search engine based on the Yahoo! Kids search engine but with an innovative visual mind map browsing capability.

Ask for Kids

• Intended for use by children in grades K-6.
• Ask for Kids is a filtered web search engine associated with Ask.com. All websites accessible through the search engine are selected by editors on the criteria of appropriateness, depth, quality, and style.

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. Once in the advanced search, go to the drop-down menu that is labeled “Location.”  Select the Juvenile Collection to limit your search results to the Juvenile area of the library.
5. From there you can type in a subject, title, language, or author of the book you are trying to find.
6. After entering your search, browse the books that match your requests. To find a book on the shelves in the Juvenile section, go to the number listed on the call number.
7. If you have any problems, do not hesitate to come ask whoever is in the Reference Desk Office for help. We are here to help you, and we love visitors! Happy book hunting!

1. Open the HBLL homepage.
2. Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
3. Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
4. In the search all box type
   “Christmas stories, American Juvenile fiction” (314 results) 
5. You can also limit the location to “Juvenile collection” or “Juvenile locked case” and then type
   “Christmas” limit juvenile collection (1415 results) *This will pull up any book in the Juvenile selection with the word  Christmas in the summary OR
   “Christmas stories American” limit juvenile collection (453 results) in the search all box

Many titles may be duplicates.

If you prefer to browse the shelves, many Christmas picture books may also be found in 394.26 C46.

Season’s Readings!

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