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WGU-Foundations of Teaching-Library Glossary

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Adjacency   show
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Call number   show
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show the library department responsible for checking out and reshelving books, maintaining information on books that have been checked out, and tracing lost materials.  
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show a set of official descriptors assigned to a particular entry in a database, illustrating the relationship between synonyms and preferred usage terms. Using controlled vocabulary to search will provide you with more focused results. Examples of controlled  
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show a collection of related electronic records in a standardized format, searchable in a variety of ways, such as title, author, subject, and keyword  
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show a lengthy, written study of a specialized subject, specifically submitted for a doctorate  
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E Indexes and Databases   show
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show oversized volumes that have their own shelving areas  
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show a list of citations to journal articles and/or books arranged by subject, author, or title.  
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show unpublished written documents, such as diaries or letters, or an author's original copy of a work.  
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show an acronym for "medical subject headings." This controlled vocabulary system is determined by the National Library of Medicine, and is used for indexing articles, cataloging materials, and searching MESH-indexed databases.  
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show documents that are reduced in size and available in either microfiche or microfilm.  
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show a scholarly writing, usually of essay or book length on a narrow subject.  
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show in boolean searching, a set of search terms arranged sequentially within a larger set; the order in which terms are set may determine the nature of the retrieved results.  
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peer review   show
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periodical   show
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show serials that target general audiences with popular or current news stories. Authors are not usually scholars in a specific discipline and do not conduct original research. These articles are not peer-reviewed.  
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Proxy Server   show
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record   show
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reference   show
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show journals that present in-depth, original research in a specific field. These articles have been reviewed by other scholars in the field for scholastic standards and validity.  
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tertiary sources   show
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thesis   show
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