Libraries

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Marked by absence of sound (6)
  2. 6. Pages bound together to read (5)
  3. 7. Systematic investigation to establish facts (8)
  4. 11. Writes professionally (6)
  5. 12. A message received and understood (11)
  6. 13. The name of a work of art or literary composition etc (5)
  7. 14. The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message (7)
  8. 16. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects (5)

Down

  1. 2. A professional person trained in ___ science and engaged in ___ services (9)
  2. 3. Vegetation that is suitable for animals to eat (6)
  3. 4. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (7)
  4. 5. A promotional statement (5)
  5. 8. A marker placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place (8)
  6. 9. An extended fictional work in prose (5)
  7. 10. A visual representation produced on a surface (plural) (8)
  8. 15. United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification (5)