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Library Vocab
Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Almanacs | annual publications that contain calendars, facts, statistics, and other miscellaneous information. |
| Atlases | Collections of maps. |
| Bibliography | a list of books, periodical articles, government documents, or other materials systematically arranged by author, title, date and place of publication, publisher, details of edition, and page numbers. |
| Biography | a written account of a person's life or the group of literature concerned with people's lives. |
| Call Numbers | a combination of numbers or letters and numbers that indicates the address or location of an item in the library. Materials in the library are organized by call number into specific groups according to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. |
| Circulation Desk | the service desk where books and other materials are loaned or checked out. Reference and periodicals do not circulate and are available for use only in the library. |
| Journal | a periodical collection of articles or other material such as reports, proceedings, or transactions issued by a society, an organization, or an institution. |
| Keyword Searching | a method or strategy of construct a search by looking for a word or combination of words that describe a document in a natural language as opposed to the controlled language of subject of descriptor searching. |
| Magazine | a periodical publication for general interest such as news, current events, and popular material. |
| Periodicals | publications issued in successive parts at regular intervals, including journals, magazines and newspapers. Current periodicals are ones that have arrived recently within the last six months to two years. |
| Reference | a department within the library where librarians can provide assistance or help in locating information or researching a topic. The reference department also contains a selection of materials such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, directories, or |
| Thesaurus | a list of words or group of words that can be used as subject headings or descriptors in a particular database, catalog, or index. The Library of Congress Subject Headings book is used as a thesaurus for the ZipLink Library Catalog. |
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