Glossary of Library Terms
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<a id="abstract" name="abstract"></a>abstract</h3>
<ul>
<li>A brief summary of the points in an article.</li>
<li>A source that compiles, by subject, author or title articles in a selected group of periodicals
and includes a summary of each article.</li>
</ul>
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<a id="access" name="access"></a>access</h3>
<ul>
<li>In computer-based information retrieval, the method by which a computer refers to records in a
file, dependent upon their arrangement.&nbsp;</li>
<li>In archives, the general ability to make use of the records of a government, government agency,
or other corporate body. (ALA Glossary)</li>
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<a id="access points" name="access points"></a>access points</h3>
<p>Text and/or numeric terms used to search bibliographic records.</p>
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<a id="acquisitions" name="acquisitions"></a>acquisitions</h3>
<p>Materials which are purchased for library use. Activities related to obtaining library materials
by purchase, exchange, or gift, including pre-order bibliographic searching, ordering and receiving
materials, processing invoices, and the maintenance of the necessary records related to
acquisitions.(ALA Glossary)</p>
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<a id="almanac" name="almanac"></a>almanac</h3>
<p>A compendium of useful data and statistics relating to countries, personalities, events, and
subjects.</p>
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<a id="analytic" name="analytic"></a>analytic</h3>
<p>A bibliographic record for a part of a publication, such as a part of a book, or an individual
volume of a multi-volume work or 
<a href="#monoseries">monographic series</a>, where each volume has its own unique title.</p>
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<a id="annotated bibliography" name="annotated bibliography"></a>annotated bibliography</h3>
<p>A list of works with descriptions and a brief summary or critical statement about each.</p>
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<a id="annotation" name="annotation"></a>annotation</h3>
<p>A note accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalog intended to describe,
explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.</p>
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<a id="annual" name="annual"></a>annual</h3>
<p>A serial publication, such as a report, yearbook or directory, issued once a year.</p>
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<a id="anthology" name="anthology"></a>anthology</h3>
<p>A collection of extracts from the works of various authors, usually in the same genre or about
the same subject. (Example: Norton Anthology of English Literature). Sometimes a collection from
the works of an individual author.</p>
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<a id="appendix" name="appendix"></a>appendix</h3>
<p>Section of a book containing supplementary materials such as tables or maps.</p>
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<a id="archives" name="archives"></a>archives</h3>
<p>Public records or historical documents, or the place where such records and documents are
kept.</p>
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<a id="arrangement" name="arrangement"></a>arrangement</h3>
<p>The order in which information is presented in a book. Determining arrangement contributes to
the effective use of that work.</p>
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<a id="article" name="article"></a>article</h3>
<p>A contribution written for publication in a journal, magazine, or newspaper.</p>
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<a id="atlas" name="atlas"></a>atlas</h3>
<p>A volume of maps, plates, engravings, tables, etc.</p>
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<a id="audiovisual" name="audiovisual"></a>audiovisual</h3>
<p>Information in a non-print format. Includes films, slides, audiotapes, videocassettes, records,
software. Also referred to as media.</p>
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<a id="author" name="author"></a>author</h3>
<p>Includes compilers, editors, and composers in addition to the main personal and corporate
authors who are responsible for a work.</p>
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<a id="authority file" name="authority file"></a>authority file</h3>
<p>The computerized list of subject, series, and name headings used in the Online Catalog.</p>
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<a id="autobiography" name="autobiography"></a>autobiography</h3>
<p>An account of one's life, composed by one's self.</p>
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<a id="barcode number" name="barcode number"></a>barcode number</h3>
<p>The 14-digit number appearing beneath the barcode found on the back on a book. Barcode numbers
are used to charge, discharge, and renew books on the online computer system.</p>
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<a id="bibliographic citation" name="bibliographic citation"></a>bibliographic citations</h3>
<p>The information which identifies a book or article. Information for a book usually includes the
author, title, publisher, and date. The citation for an article includes the author, title of the
article, title of the periodical, volume, pages, and date.</p>
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<a id="bibdatabase" name="bibdatabase"></a>
</h3>
<h3>bibliographic database</h3>
<p>A database which indexes and contains references to the original sources of information. It
contains information about the documents in it rather than the documents themselves.</p>
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<a id="bibliographic record" name="bibliographic record"></a>bibliographic record</h3>
<p>The unit of information fields (e.g. title, author, publication date, etc.) which describe and
identify a specific item in a bibliographic database.</p>
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<a id="bibliography" name="bibliography"></a>bibliography</h3>
<p>A list of citations or references to books or periodical articles on a particular topic.
Bibliographies can appear at the end of a book, journal, or encyclopedia article, or in a separate
publication.</p>
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<a id="bindery" name="bindery"></a>bindery</h3>
<p>Books that need repair and loose issues of journals that are combined or bound into a single
volume are sent out of the library system to a company which binds them. These items are not
available to users until they come back to the library system.</p>
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<a id="bio-bibliography" name="bio-bibliography"></a>bio-bibliography</h3>
<p>A list of works by various authors (or, occasionally, one author) which includes brief
biographical data.</p>
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<a id="biography" name="biography"></a>biography</h3>
<p>A book about a person written by some other person.</p>
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<a id="blurb" name="blurb"></a>blurb</h3>
<p>Advertisement found on the book jacket designed to promote the sale of the book.</p>
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<a id="book review" name="book review"></a>book review</h3>
<p>An evaluation or discussion of a new book by a critic or journalist.</p>
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<a id="bookstacks" name="bookstacks"></a>bookstacks</h3>
<p>Often called the Stacks, this multi-story section of the main Library contains approximately 65%
of the Library's collection, or 6 million volumes.</p>
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<a id="Boolean" name="Boolean"></a>Boolean logic</h3>
<p>Referring to logical or algebraic operations, formulated by George Boole, involving variables
with two values, such as Value 1 
<em>and</em> Value 2; Value 1 
<em>or</em> Value 2; and Value 1 
<em>but not</em> Value 2.(ALA Glossary)</p>
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<a id="bound volume" name="bound volume"></a>bound volume</h3>
<p>Formed when issues of a periodical title are gathered to form a hardback volume.</p>
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<a id="browse" name="browse"></a>browse searching</h3>
<p>Browse searching is limited to one field, such as author or subject heading, and the computer
matches the search statement exactly, so word order and spacing are important. This is in contrast
to keyword searching which may involve more than one field, and where word order is not important.
A browse search results in a list of entries from the one field, and one may scroll through the
list, either forward or backward, as far as one wishes, potentially through all the entries in the
list.&nbsp;</p>
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<a id="callnumber" name="callnumber"></a>call number</h3>
<p>A combination of numbers and letters that provide a unique description of each item in a library
collection. Items are arranged on the book shelves by call number, so the call number is the
"address" of materials on the shelf.</p>
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<a id="cardcatalog" name="cardcatalog"></a>card catalog</h3>
<p>A card file, arranged by author, title, and subject, listing all items owned by a library. The
Main Card Catalog contains records for every cataloged item in the Library System from 1868-1975.
Each departmental library maintained a separate card catalog of its own collection.</p>
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<a id="carrel" name="carrel"></a>carrel</h3>
<p>A study area for one person.</p>
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<a id="CD-ROM" name="CD-ROM"></a>CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read-Only Memory)</h3>
<p>An information technology which is used to store large databases and provides access to them via
computer. These discs look like the compact discs you'd see in a music store. Instead of storing
music, they store text. The Library has a limited number of CD-ROM as most materials are now
online.</p>
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<a id="charge" name="charge"></a>check out or charge</h3>
<p>To borrow books or periodicals from the library for a certain period of time.</p>
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<a id="CIC" name="CIC"></a>CIC</h3>
<p>CIC is an acronym for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (<a href="http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/">http://www.cic.uiuc.edu</a>) which is the academic consortium of
the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago.</p>
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<a id="circulate" name="circulate"></a>circulate</h3>
<p>To allow materials to be charged out.</p>
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<a id="circulation desk" name="circulation desk"></a>circulation desk</h3>
<p>Location in each library where you check out, return or renew items, ask about missing items, or
inquire about fines.</p>
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<a id="citation" name="citation"></a>citation</h3>
<p>A citation is a reference or footnote to an item (such as a book or periodical article); a
citation contains the author, title, date of publication, and any other information needed to
locate the item.</p>
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<a id="citation index" name="citation index"></a>citation index</h3>
<p>An index consisting essentially of a list of works which have been cited in other, later works,
and a list of works from which the citations have been collected. Used to identify subsequently
published works that are related by subject to the cited work.</p>
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<a id="class number" name="class number"></a>class number</h3>
<p>Top part of a call number which stands for the subject matter of the book.</p>
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<a id="classification scheme" name="classification scheme"></a>classification scheme</h3>
<p>Classification systems which use numbers and/or letters, to represent the subject content of
materials. 
<em>See also</em> Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme.</p>
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<a id="commands" name="commands"></a> 
<strong>commands</strong>&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Symbols and/or terms used to retrieve computer-stored information.</p>
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<a id="conference report" name="conference report"></a>conference report</h3>
<p>Papers generated at or for a conference; may include minutes, transcripts, papers, and/or
presentations.</p>
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<a id="connectors" name="connectors"></a>connectors&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Words that indicate the relationship between search terms. Also referred to as Boolean
Operators. Common connectors are: AND, OR, NOT.</p>
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<a id="contemporary materials" name="contemporary materials"></a>contemporary materials&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Information produced during the time an event occurs.</p>
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<a id="continuation" name="continuation"></a>continuation&nbsp;</h3>
<p>A serial publication issued less than 3 times a year, i.e. not often enough to be called a
"periodical." Usually referred to as a "contin."</p>
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<a id="controlledvocabulary" name="controlledvocabulary"></a>controlled vocabulary</h3>
<p>The standardization of words which may be used to search an index, abstract or information
database. There is usually a published listing or thesaurus of preferred terms identifying the
system's vocabulary. See also 
<em>Thesaurus</em> (Example: Library of Congress Subject Headings).</p>
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<a id="copy card" name="copy card"></a>copy card&nbsp;</h3>
<p>A small plastic card that can be purchased and used in library photocopiers and laser printers
on campus. (However at this time they do NOT work in Microfiche/film reader/printers). Copies made
using the card are less expensive than using cash.</p>
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<a id="corporate entry" name="corporate entry"></a>corporate entry&nbsp;</h3>
<p>A corporate body (company, institution, government agency, etc.) which is listed in a cataloging
record as a heading for a publication (e.g., because the publication has no personal author).</p>
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<a id="copyright" name="copyright"></a>copyright&nbsp;</h3>
<p>The legal right to control the production, use, and sale of copies of a literary, musical, or
artistic work.</p>
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<a id="course reserves" name="course reserves"></a>course reserves&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Materials that instructors set aside for the students in a class to read. These items may be
borrowed for a short period and have very high fines for late returns.</p>
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<a id="cross reference" name="cross reference"></a>cross reference&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Word or heading that directs you from one part of a book, catalog, or index to another part.</p>
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<a id="cumulation" name="cumulation"></a>cumulation&nbsp;</h3>
<p>An index which is formed as a result of the incorporation of successive parts of elements. All
the material is arranged in one alphabet.</p>
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<a id="current periodicals" name="current periodicals"></a>current periodicals&nbsp;</h3>
<p>The latest or most recent issues of journals and magazines that the library receives.</p>
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<a id="database" name="database"></a>database&nbsp;</h3>
<p>A structured set of information, stored in a book, disk, computer, etc.</p>
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<a id="departmental libraries" name="departmental libraries"></a>departmental libraries&nbsp;</h3>
<p>Subject libraries located in either the Main Library or in other buildings on campus that
provide materials and services in a specialized area.</p>
<p>
<a id="depository" name="depository"></a>
</p>
<h3>depository</h3>
<p>A library which receives the publications of a government or official body. Illinois is a
depository for publications of the U.S. Government, the State of Illinois, the United Nations,
etc.</p>
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<a id="descriptor" name="descriptor"></a>descriptor</h3>
<p>A simple word or phrase used as a subject.</p>
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<a id="Dewey" name="Dewey"></a>Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme</h3>
<p>A method developed in the nineteenth century by Melville Dewey to classify and shelve items by
using numbers to represent subject content. It is a highly structured arrangement of all areas of
knowledge into numbers ranging from 000 to 999. The Dewey Decimal Classification System is used by
all Illinois Libraries except for Asian, Documents, Health Sciences, Law, Music, and Maps in the
Map and Geography Library.</p>
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<a id="dictionary" name="dictionary"></a>dictionary</h3>
<p>Source that provides word definition and correct grammatical usage. Dictionaries may be either
general or subject specific.</p>
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<a id="directory" name="directory"></a>directory</h3>
<p>A list of persons or organizations, systematically arranged, giving address, affiliations, etc.
for individuals and address, officers, functions, and similar data for organizations.</p>
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<a id="dissertation" name="dissertation"></a>dissertation</h3>
<p>A thesis or treatise prepared as a condition for the award of a degree or diploma.</p>
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<a id="downloading" name="downloading"></a>downloading</h3>
<p>Refers to the transfer of search results into a file on a disc or drive.</p>
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<a id="due date" name="due date"></a>due date</h3>
<p>The date by which borrowed books and materials should be returned. To extend the loan period for
materials, the item should be renewed before the due date so that fines are not incurred.</p>
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<a id="encyclopedia" name="encyclopedia"></a>encyclopedia</h3>
<p>General information source that provides articles on various branches of knowledge.
Encyclopedias may be general or subject specific.</p>
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<a id="endnotes" name="endnotes"></a>endnotes</h3>
<p>Notes (or statements explaining the text or indicating the basis for an assertion or the source
of material quoted) that appear at the end of a work.(ALA Glossary)</p>
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<a id="entry" name="entry"></a>entry</h3>
<p>An item or fact that has been "entered" (placed on a list or into a catalog or index or
database). See also citation.</p>
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<a id="essays" name="essays"></a>essay</h3>
<p>A literary composition in which the author analyzes or interprets a subject, often from a
personal point of view.</p>
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<a id="evaluation" name="evaluation"></a>evaluation</h3>
<p>A critical assessment of an information source.</p>
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<a id="field" name="field"></a>field</h3>
<p>The part of a record used for a particular category of data. For example, the title field in a
database record displays the title for the record.</p>
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<a id="fines" name="fines"></a>fines</h3>
<p>The amount of money which is owed by the borrower if materials are not returned on time</p>
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<a id="FirstSearch" name="FirstSearch"></a>FirstSearch</h3>
<p>OCLC's end-user online reference menu accessing several databases, which are determined by each
participating library.</p>
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<a id="folio" name="folio"></a>folio</h3>
<p>An oversized book, too large for normal shelving. Folio call numbers begin with an F.; for
example, F. 912 R15C (<em>The Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide</em>). Folios are generally housed in special cases in
the various libraries. For folio locations in the Main Stacks, see the 
<a href="/cms/circ/about/stacks_nav.html#folio" title="Folio locations in the stacks">Circulation
Desk's web page</a> or ask at the Circulation Desk in the 
<a href="#mainlibrary">Main Library</a>.</p>
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<a id="footnotes" name="footnotes"></a>footnotes</h3>
<p>Notes (or a statement explaining the text or indicating the basis for an assertion or the source
of material quoted) that appear at the foot of a page of text. (ALA Glossary)</p>
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<a id="format" name="format"></a>format</h3>
<p>The physical form in which information appears.</p>
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<a id="fulltext" name="fulltext"></a>fulltext</h3>
<p>Some of the article databases available from the Illinois library offer full text electronic
access to a wide range of articles.</p>
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<a id="gazetteer" name="gazetteer"></a>gazetteer</h3>
<p>A geographical dictionary; usually includes longitude and latitude of a given place, population,
size, etc.</p>
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<a id="gopher" name="gopher"></a>gopher</h3>
<p>Computer software developed at the University of Minnesota that allows computers to find
information on other computers. Generally obsolete, it has been replaced by the advent of the web
browser.</p>
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<a id="government document" name="government document"></a>government documents</h3>
<p>Sources printed by or for government agencies. The Library has hundreds and thousands of state,
national, and international documents, most of which are serviced by the Documents Library (room
200D Library). See also 
<a href="#depository">depository</a>.</p>
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<a id="Graduate Library" name="Graduate Library"></a>Graduate Library</h3>
<p>See 
<a href="#mainlibrary">Main Library</a></p>
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<a id="handbooks" name="handbooks"></a>handbooks</h3>
<p>General information source providing quick reference on a given subject. Handbooks may be
general or subject specific.</p>
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<a id="HECA" name="HECA"></a>HECA (Higher Education Cooperative Act)</h3>
<p>The legislation which allowed the original 18 schools to participate in LCS, thus starting the
statewide online catalog</p>
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<a id="hits" name="hits"></a>hits</h3>
<p>Refers to items retrieved from a database matching criteria you set. For example, if you do a 
<a href="#keyword">keyword</a> title search in the online catalog for "linguistics" and retrieve
2798 items, that can also be called 2798 'hits.'</p>
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<a id="holdings" name="holdings"></a>holdings</h3>
<p>The materials owned or held by a library.</p>
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<a id="hypertext" name="hypertext"></a>hypertext</h3>
<p>A document format which includes the use of specially coded terms or images which, when selected
or "clicked," connect to a linked location or file, or carry out a command to run an application or
program.</p>
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<a id="IBIS" name="IBIS"></a>IBIS (Illinois Bibliographic Information Services)</h3>
<p>A set of electronic indexes in a variety of subject areas, available at library terminals, from
campus networked terminals, and from home computers using a modem.</p>
<p>
<a id="icard" name="icard"></a>
</p>
<h3>i-card</h3>
<p>The i-card is the 
<a href="http://www.icard.uillinois.edu/dsp_faqs.cfm" title="I-Card FAQs">official University
identification card</a>. It is used to access services and facilities and to verify status.</p>
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<a id="ID" name="ID"></a>ID</h3>
<p>Your University ID, or 
<a href="http://www.icard.uillinois.edu/dsp_faqs.cfm" title="I-Card FAQs">"i-card"</a>, also serves
as your library card. Your library number starts with "20111..."</p>
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<a id="ILLINET" name="ILLINET"></a>I-Share</h3>
<p>Network of Illinois libraries that uses OCLC to catalog their materials.</p>
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<a id="illinetonline" name="illinetonline"></a>I-Share Online</h3>
<p>The statewide online catalog used by over 35 libraries in Illinois. The Illinois Online Catalog
is a subset of I-Share Online.</p>
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<a id="imprint" name="imprint"></a>imprint</h3>
<p>The name of the publisher, distributor, manufacturer, etc. and the place and date of
publication, distribution, manufacture, etc. of a bibliographic item.</p>
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<a id="incunabula" name="incunabula"></a>incunabula</h3>
<p>A book printed before 1501.</p>
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<a id="index" name="index"></a>index</h3>
<p>Points to where information can be found.&nbsp;</p>
<ol>
<li>List at the end of books, encyclopedias, etc. that indicates by author, title and/or subject
the location of information within the book or encyclopedia.</li>
<li>Tool that arranges (by author, title, or subject) citations to articles in a selected group of
periodicals. See also 
<a href="#bibdatabase">bibliographic database</a>.</li>
</ol>
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<a id="ill" name="ill"></a>interlibrary loan (ILL)</h3>
<p>Exchange of books or periodical articles between libraries for a brief period. A service you can
use to borrow library materials not owned by the University of Illinois from other libraries.</p>
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<a id="internet" name="internet"></a>Internet</h3>
<p>The global network of computers linked together, accessible mainly via the World Wide Web.
Originally started by government and international scientists to facilitate communication, it is
now used by the public at large.</p>
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<a id="invisible college" name="invisible college"></a>invisible college</h3>
<p>Researchers, scholars, or experts who have established communication links that are independent
of the literature in the fields in which they work. People who are on the frontiers of research,
regardless of the field, tend to communicate directly with one another about their work.</p>
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<a id="IP address" name="IP address"></a>IP address</h3>
<p>IP stands for "Internet Protocol". An IP Address is a four part number used to uniquely identify
a particular computer on a network using the TCP/IP (Internet) Protocol. For example,
130.126.33.246 could be an IP address.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>
<a id="IRRC" name="IRRC"></a>IRRC</h3>
<p>Stands for 
<a href="/export/irrc/index.html" title="Illinois Research and Retrieval Center">Illinois Research and
Retrieval Center</a>, the library office responsible for 
<a href="#ill">Interlibrary Loan</a> (ILL).</p>
<h3>
<a id="ISBN" name="ISBN"></a>ISBN (International Standard Book Number)</h3>
<p>A four-part, ten-character code given a book (a non-serial literary publication) before
publication as a means of identifying it concisely, uniquely, and unambiguously. The four parts of
the ISBN are: group identifier (e.g., national, geographic, language, or other convenient group),
publisher identifier, title identifier, and check digit. (ALA Glossary)</p>
<h3>
<a id="ISSN" name="ISSN"></a>ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)</h3>
<p>The international numerical code that identifies concisely, uniquely, and unambiguously a serial
publication.(ALA Glossary)</p>
<h3>
<a id="Issue" name="Issue"></a>Issue</h3>
<p>A single uniquely numbered or dated part of a periodical or newspaper. (ALA Glossary)</p>
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<h3>
<a id="journal" name="journal"></a>journal</h3>
<p>A type of periodical which contains signed scholarly articles. Journals are usually published by
academic or association presses and include bibliographies.</p>
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<a id="K" name="K"></a>- K -</h2>
<p>
<a id="keyword" name="keyword"></a>
</p>
<h3>keyword</h3>
<p>Generally, this refers to searching a database using "natural language."</p>
<h3>
<a id="keyword searching" name="keyword searching"></a>keyword searching</h3>
<p>Keyword searching results in a list of database records that contain all the keywords entered as
search terms, according to the logic of the search. A keyword search may be performed in one index,
or it may be performed in more than one index combined.</p>
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<a id="L" name="L"></a>- L -</h2>
<h3>
<a id="library ID" name="library ID"></a>library ID</h3>
<p>Your University ID, the 
<a href="#icard">"i-card"</a>, also serves as your library card. your library card number starts
with "20111..."</p>
<h3>
<a id="LCSH" name="LCSH"></a>Library of Congress Subject Headings</h3>
<p>List of accepted subject headings used in the Library's catalogs. Copies of LCSH are usually
located near the catalogs. An online version is also available.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="magazine" name="magazine"></a>magazine</h3>
<p>A type of periodical containing popular articles which are usually shorter or less authoritative
than 
<a href="#journal">journal</a> articles on the same subject.</p>
<h3>
<a id="magazine collection" name="magazine collection"></a>magazine collection</h3>
<p>A set of microfilm cartridges providing full text coverage of over 300 popular magazines from
1980 to the present. Located in the Undergraduate Library.</p>
<p>
<a id="mainlibrary" name="mainlibrary"></a>
</p>
<h3>Main Library</h3>
<p>Building that houses 65% of the total Illinois collection and approximately 20 departmental
libraries. Often erroneously referred to as the "graduate library."</p>
<h3>
<a id="manual" name="manual"></a>manual</h3>
<p>A book of rules or guidelines; a handbook.</p>
<h3>
<a id="manuscript" name="manuscript"></a>manuscript</h3>
<p>A handwritten or typed composition, rather than printed. Includes groups of personal papers
which have some unifying characteristic and individual documents which have some special
importance.</p>
<h3>
<a id="MARC" name="MARC"></a>MARC (Machine-readable Cataloging)</h3>
<p>An international standard format for the arrangement of cataloging information so that it can be
stored and retrieved using computer tapes.</p>
<h3>
<a id="media" name="media"></a>media</h3>
<p>Films, tapes, and other audio-visual materials that require the use of special listening or
viewing equipment.</p>
<h3>
<a id="media center" name="media center"></a>media center</h3>
<p>The Media Center, located on the lower level of the Undergraduate Library, offers materials in
non-print formats from slides to video-discs to audiotapes. Viewing facilities provided all hours
the library is open.</p>
<h3>
<a id="microcard" name="microcard"></a>microcard</h3>
<p>A trade name for a 3 x 5 inch sheet of opaque material bearing one or more microimages.</p>
<h3>
<a id="microfiche" name="microfiche"></a>microfiche</h3>
<p>A format; photographically reduced images reproduced on a small 4 x 6 sheets of film. Often used
to provide backup for periodicals with missing pages.</p>
<h3>
<a id="microfilm" name="microfilm"></a>microfilm</h3>
<p>A format; photographically reduced images of printed pages on 35mm film. This format also
provides backup for periodicals with missing pages. Older issues of newspapers are often
microfilmed because newsprint deteriorates so rapidly.</p>
<h3>
<a id="microform" name="microform"></a>microform</h3>
<p>Formats for storing photographically reduced images onto plastic film. Microfiche and microfilm
are two types of microforms. A microform reader/printer is required to read or copy microforms.</p>
<h3>
<a id="monograph" name="monograph"></a>monograph</h3>
<p>A book. A separate treatise on a single subject or class of subjects, or on one person, usually
detailed in treatment but not extensive in scope and often containing bibliographies.</p>
<p>
<a id="monoseries" name="monoseries"></a>
</p>
<h3>monographic series</h3>
<p>A monographic series is a set of books that have a number of volumes with a definite end. An
encyclopedia is a good example.</p>
<h3>
<a id="monoset" name="monoset"></a>monographic set&nbsp;</h3>
<p>So called because unlike a periodical, the monographic set has a finite number of volumes.
Example would be an encyclopedia.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="NENG" name="NENG"></a>NENG</h3>
<p>Non-english - i.e., foreign language items.</p>
<h3>
<a id="NETID" name="NETID"></a>NetID</h3>
<p>Your Network ID (or NetID) is a name used to identify you on the campus network. It is assigned
to you when you first enter the University, and it remains associated with you throughout your time
here. Due to the nature of the various campus services which rely on the NetID, it must be created
for you, and may not be altered, except in the case of a legal name change. Your NetID password is
a combination of 6 to 8 letters, numbers, and other characters that is used to confirm your
identity when accessing the network and some services on the network. Your Network ID and password
are used to access the network.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Your email/Web Account logon will be the same as your Network ID. Your email/Web Account
password will initially be the same as your Network ID password, but it is stored in a different
location. When you change one, you must also change the other if you wish for them to be
identical.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you forget your NetID password, you can have either set to anything you wish at the Account
Services Desk in the 
<a href="http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/" title="CITES">CITES</a> weekdays from 8:30 to 5:00. They will
need your University ID (or other picture ID) to help you. Also, a 
<a href="https://www-s.uiuc.edu/bluestem/ccso-sec.jpeg" title="fax form">fax form</a> is available
for faculty, staff, and off-campus students.</p>
<h3>
<a id="newsletter" name="newsletter"></a>newsletter</h3>
<p>A serial consisting of one or two printed sheets containing news or information of interest
chiefly to a special group. (ALA Glossary, p. 153)</p>
<h3>
<a id="newspaper" name="newspaper"></a>newspaper</h3>
<p>A serial issued at stated, frequent intervals (i.e., daily, weekly, or semi-weekly), containing
news, opinions, advertisements, and other items of current, often local, interest.</p>
<h3>
<a id="NOCIRC" name="NOCIRC"></a>NOCIR</h3>
<p>Non-circulating - the loan period for items which do not circulate outside a library, such as
reference works. However, items with this circulation code may still be used within a library.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="OCLC" name="OCLC"></a>OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)</h3>
<p>A bibliographic network based on an online database of approximately 28 million cataloging
records from its 5500 members, including those of Illinois Library since 1975. It now serves more
than 18,000 libraries in 52 countries. The OCLC database is used for cataloging, for reference
work, and for interlibrary loan. It is the world's largest and most comprehensive database of
bibliographic information. URL: 
<a href="http://www.oclc.org/" title="OCLC WorldCat">http://www.oclc.org/</a></p>
<h3>
<a id="onlinecatalog" name="onlinecatalog"></a>online catalog</h3>
<p>The University of Illinois Library's computerized list of materials held.</p>
<h3>
<a id="online database" name="online database"></a>online database</h3>
<p>Computer databases. Bibliographic databases provide access by author, title, and subject to a
group of periodicals, books, or proceedings. Numeric databases provide access to statistical
information.</p>
<h3>
<a id="OPAC" name="OPAC"></a>OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)</h3>
<p>A computerized catalog of books and other items in the library.</p>
<h3>
<a id="operators" name="operators"></a>operators</h3>
<p>Words such as AND, OR, and NOT that are used to combine search terms to broaden or narrow the
results of a search.</p>
<h3>
<a id="overdue" name="overdue"></a>overdue</h3>
<p>Material which is not returned to the library by its due date is considered overdue.</p>
<h3>
<a id="oversize" name="oversize"></a>oversize</h3>
<p>Books that are too large for normal shelves; usually designated with a Q (quarto) or F (folio)
before the call number; stored in a special location.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="peer review process" name="peer review process"></a>peer review process</h3>
<p>Method used by scholarly journals to assure the quality and relevance of the articles they
publish. When an article is submitted, the editor sends copies to several reviewers (or "referees")
who are recognized experts in the subject of the article. Each reads the article and offers an
opinion on whether it is worthy of publication in the journal, using such criteria as soundness of
investigative method, whether the author shows adequate knowledge of research on the subject to
date, and whether the articles adds to knowledge in the field. Only if the reviewers agree that it
meets the relevant criteria will the article be published.</p>
<h3>
<a id="peer-reviewed article" name="peer-reviewed article"></a>peer-reviewed article</h3>
<p>A scholarly article published in a peer-reviewed journal.</p>
<h3>
<a id="peer-reviewed journal" name="peer-reviewed journal"></a>peer-reviewed journal</h3>
<p>Also called a "refereed" journal. A scholarly journal that used the peer review process to
select material for publication.</p>
<h3>
<a id="periodical" name="periodical"></a>periodical</h3>
<p>Materials published at regular intervals (at least 3 times a year) and intended to be continued
indefinitely. Examples of periodicals include magazines, journals, and newsletters.</p>
<h3>
<a id="phone center" name="phone center"></a>phone center</h3>
<p>See 
<a href="#telephonecenter">telephone center</a></p>
<h3>
<a id="primary" name="primary"></a>primary sources</h3>
<p>Fundamental, authoritative documents relating to a subject, used in the preparation of a later
work, e.g., original record, contemporary documents, etc. Synonymous with original sources and
source material.</p>
<h3>
<a id="public domain" name="public domain"></a>public domain</h3>
<p>Material in the public domain is not copyrighted and may be used freely for any legal purpose.
Works may be in the public domain for several reasons. For example, the copyright may have expired
or the owner may have given up the copyright. Material published by the federal government is not
copyrighted.</p>
<h3>
<a id="publication" name="publication"></a>publication</h3>
<p>A book, periodical, musical score, etc. that has been "brought before the public"; in other
words, a work that has been printed and distributed.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="quarto" name="quarto"></a>quarto</h3>
<p>An oversized book, being over 11.5" (29 cm.) in height or width.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="recall" name="recall"></a>recall</h3>
<ol>
<li>a request by a library to a borrower for the return of a borrowed item before the due
date.</li>
<li>To request a borrower to return a borrowed item before the due date.&nbsp; (ALA Glossary, p.
186)</li>
<li>A patron may request a recall of an item from a staff member.</li>
</ol>
<h3>
<a id="record" name="record"></a>record</h3>
<p>A single document in a database. In an electronic index, a record consists of a citation (with
or without an abstract) for a single periodical article.</p>
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<a id="refereed" name="refereed"></a>refereed</h3>
<p>Said of a periodical or other serial when manuscripts are evaluated by at least one subject
specialist in addition to the editor before being accepted for publication.&nbsp; (ALA Glossary, p.
188)</p>
<h3>
<a id="reference desk" name="reference desk"></a>reference desk</h3>
<p>Location in each library where you can get help in using the library and receive answers to your
questions.</p>
<h3>
<a id="reference librarians" name="reference librarians"></a>reference librarians</h3>
<p>Reference librarians are specialists in the field of information retrieval. Generally they have
a Masters degree in library and information science, and many have other graduate degrees as well.
They are available at reference desks to help you find information.</p>
<h3>
<a id="reference materials" name="reference materials"></a>reference materials</h3>
<p>A selection of library materials used by reference librarians and information assistants to help
people find information or do research. Reference collections contain many sources of information,
such as dictionaries, directories, almanacs, encyclopedias, atlases, and statistical compilations.
They may also have bibliographies, indexes, and abstracts. Reference materials usually do not leave
the library.</p>
<h3>
<a id="renewal" name="renewal"></a>renewal</h3>
<p>An extension of the loan period for charged library materials. As long as no one else requests
the book, renewals are unlimited. Renewals may be handled in person at a circulation desk, by phone
through the Telephone Center (333-8400), by mailing a renewal sheet available from the Main Library
Circulation Desk, or by accessing your Borrower Information or " 
<a href="https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=pbLogon"
title="My Library Account">My Account</a>" through the online catalog.</p>
<h3>
<a id="reprint" name="reprint"></a>reprint</h3>
<ol>
<li>A new impression of an edition.</li>
<li>A new edition from a new setting of type for which an impression of a previous edition has been
used as copy.</li>
<li>A separately issued article, chapter, or other portion of a previously published larger work,
usually a reproduction of an original, but sometimes made from a new setting of type. (ALA
Glossary)</li>
</ol>
<h3>
<a id="research strategy" name="research strategy"></a>research strategy</h3>
<p>The methodology or plan followed to find information on a subject or research topic.</p>
<h3>
<a id="reserve desk" name="reserve desk"></a>reserve desk</h3>
<p>Service point where you can go to find required course readings.</p>
<h3>
<a id="reserve materials" name="reserve materials"></a>reserve materials</h3>
<p>A selection of specific books, periodical articles and other materials which faculty have
indicated that students must read for a particular course. These materials are usually kept
together in one area of the library and circulate for a short period of time only. To locate
reserve materials, you may need to use a reserve course file, ask at the circulation or reserve
desk, or look up a title in a reserve reading list. Each library has its own reserve system. Most
reserves for 100 level and 200 level courses are held in the Undergraduate Library unless the
instructor has made other arrangements.</p>
<h3>
<a id="retrospective materials" name="retrospective materials"></a>retrospective materials</h3>
<p>Sources of information published after an event has occurred.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="scope" name="scope"></a>scope</h3>
<p>The content of a work; what information is included and what information is excluded.</p>
<h3>
<a id="search" name="search"></a>search</h3>
<ol>
<li>To look for information contained in a database by entering words or numbers in a search
box.</li>
<li>A process by which library circulation staff look in various library locations for a missing
item and hold it for the person requesting the search when it is found.</li>
</ol>
<h3>
<a id="secondary" name="secondary"></a>secondary sources</h3>
<p>Books or articles that explain or analyze 
<a href="#primary">primary sources</a>. For example, criticism of a literary work.</p>
<h3>
<a id="see" name="see"></a> 
<em>see</em> reference</h3>
<p>A reference from a heading that is 
<strong>not</strong> used to one or more headings that 
<strong>are</strong> used. For example, the 
<a href="#LCSH">Library of Congress Subject Headings</a> does not use the heading Native Americans;
there is a 
<em>see</em> reference to Indians of North America, the correct heading.</p>
<h3>
<a id="see also" name="see also"></a> 
<em>see also</em> reference</h3>
<p>A reference from one heading to one or more related headings. For example, in the 
<a href="#LCSH">Library of Congress Subject Headings</a>, under the heading Recycling, there is a 
<em>see also</em> reference indicating to look at subheadings under subjects, e.g. Waste
Paper--Recycling, Glass Waste--Recycling.</p>
<h3>
<a id="serial" name="serial"></a>serial</h3>
<p>Materials issued at regular or irregular intervals and intended to continue indefinitely.
Includes 
<a href="#periodical">periodicals</a>, 
<a href="#magazine">magazines</a>, 
<a href="#journal">journals</a>, and 
<a href="#yearbook">yearbooks</a>.</p>
<h3>
<a id="series" name="series"></a>series</h3>
<p>A group of separate bibliographic items related to one another by the fact that each item bears,
in addition to its own title proper, a collective title applying to the group as a whole. The
individual items may or may not be numbered. (AACR 2) For example, 
<em>The Death Penalty</em> is a book in the 
<em>Opposing Viewpoints</em> series.</p>
<h3>
<a id="serial record" name="serial record"></a>serial record</h3>
<p>The portion of the Illinois card catalog which contains bibliographic information for serial
publications cataloged before 1979. The holdings and location information given for these titles is
no longer current -- consult the 
<a href="#onlinecatalog">online catalog</a>.</p>
<h3>
<a id="set" name="set"></a>set</h3>
<p>A group of related items. When conducting a search in a 
<a href="#database">database</a>, the results of a search form a set. See also 
<a href="#Boolean">Boolean logic</a>.</p>
<h3>
<a id="shelflist" name="shelflist"></a>shelflist</h3>
<p>The part of the Illinois Library 
<a href="#cardcatalog">card catalog</a> which arranges cards by Dewey Decimal call number rather
than by author or title (i.e., a classified catalog). The shelflist was used formerly to give
location and holdings information, but has been replaced for this purpose since 1978 by the 
<a href="#onlinecatalog">online catalog</a>. Some holdings for serials which ceased publication
before 1950 are ONLY listed in the shelflist. Holdings for these items are gradually being added to
the online catalog.</p>
<h3>
<a id="SILC" name="SILC"></a>SILC</h3>
<p>Acronym for Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (<a href="http://www.finditillinois.org/OCLC/" title="SILC">http://findit.ilsos.net/OCLC/</a>). An
online catalog which allows searching of materials from the thousands of academic, public, school,
and special libraries that make up the twelve regional library systems in the State of
Illinois.</p>
<h3>
<a id="stacks" name="stacks"></a>stacks</h3>
<p>Rows of shelves where library books and journals are stored. The largest collection of library
materials is stored in the Main Stacks, or 
<a href="#bookstacks">bookstacks</a>. In addition to the Main Stacks, each 
<a href="http://www.library.illinois.edu/services/find.php"
title="Find Departmental Libraries">departmental library</a> has a stacks location where, in most
cases, library materials that can be borrowed are located. For example, Illinois History Stacks
means the item is located in the stacks collection of the History Library.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>
<a id="stopword" name="stopword"></a>stopword</h3>
<p>A word which is omitted from the 
<a href="#index">index</a> of a 
<a href="#database">database</a>. Stopwords are very common words (a, a, the, to, for, etc.) that
normally add little meaning to the subject content of the document being indexed. Since stopwords
are not indexed, they cannot be used as search terms, but will appear when you print documents from
the database.</p>
<h3>
<a id="style manual" name="style manual"></a>style manual</h3>
<p>A publication that sets forth the rules for composition, including format and manner of citing
sources, to be used in a particular discipline or profession or by a particular publisher.</p>
<h3>
<a id="subheading" name="subheading"></a>subheading</h3>
<p>A subdivision of a more general subject heading. For example in the 
<a href="#LCSH">Library of Congress Subject Heading</a> United States--History, 
<em>History</em> is a subheading of 
<em>United States</em>.</p>
<h3>
<a id="subject heading" name="subject heading"></a>subject heading</h3>
<p>A term or phrase used in 
<a href="#index">indexes</a> and library catalogs to describe the content of library materials in a
standardized way. For example, Indians of North America is the subject heading used in the 
<a href="#onlinecatalog">online catalog</a> to describe materials about Native Americans. See also 
<a href="#thesaurus">thesaurus</a> and 
<a href="#keyword">keywords</a>.</p>
<h3>
<a id="SuDocs" name="SuDocs"></a>SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents)</h3>
<p>The 
<a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/explain.html"
title="SuDoc classification scheme">classification scheme</a> used by the U.S. Superintendent of
Documents. Used to create call numbers for most U.S. 
<a href="/export/doc/index.html" title="Government Documents Webpage">government documents</a>
received at the Illinois Library since 1980.</p>
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<h3>
<a id="table of contents" name="table of contents"></a>table of contents</h3>
<p>A list of parts contained within a book or periodical, such as chapter titles and periodical
articles, with references by page number or other location symbol to the place they begin and in
the sequence in which they appear. (ALA Glossary)</p>
<h3>
<a id="telephonecenter" name="telephonecenter"></a>telephone center</h3>
<p>A service which will search, request, and renew library materials for you--call 333-8400. Also
called the Phone Center.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>
<a id="tertiary sources" name="tertiary sources"></a>tertiary sources</h3>
<p>Reference works that identify, point out, summarize, abstract, or repackage the information
provided in 
<a href="#primary">primary</a> and 
<a href="#secondary">secondary sources</a>. Examples include 
<a href="#dictionary">dictionaries</a>, 
<a href="#encyclopedia">encyclopedias</a>, 
<a href="#handbooks">handbooks</a>, etc. (<em>Oxford Guide to Library Research</em>, 1998)</p>
<h3>
<a id="TPRC" name="TPRC"></a>term paper research counseling</h3>
<p>A free one-to-one service offered to students in the Undergraduate Library each semester.
Assistance in choosing topics, finding sources, using the online catalog, and footnoting is
provided.</p>
<h3>
<a id="thesaurus" name="thesaurus"></a>thesaurus</h3>
<p>A list of all the subject headings or 
<a href="#descriptor">descriptors</a> used in a particular 
<a href="#database">database</a>, catalog, or 
<a href="#index">index</a>. The thesaurus for the 
<a href="#onlinecatalog">online catalog</a> is the 
<a href="#LCSH">Library of Congress Subject Headings</a>. See also 
<a href="#controlledvocabulary">controlled vocabulary</a>.</p>
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<a id="thesis" name="thesis"></a>thesis</h3>
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<li>the main idea or argument of a paper.</li>
<li>a document prepared as a condition for the award of a degree or diploma. For example, a Masters
thesis.</li>
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<a id="truncation" name="truncation"></a>truncation</h3>
<p>In database searching, the addition of a special symbol (*, #, ?, etc.) to the root of a word to
match any record in a database that begins with the letters to the left of the symbol. For example
in the 
<a href="#onlinecatalog">online catalog</a>, typing 
<em>forest?</em> as an expert keyword search would find records containing the words forest,
forestry, forests, forested, etc.</p>
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<a id="unbound volumes" name="unbound volumes"></a>unbound volumes</h3>
<p>Current, individual issues of a 
<a href="#periodical">periodical</a> title that are not yet gathered together as a hardback 
<a href="#volume">volume</a>.</p>
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<a id="uniform title" name="uniform title"></a>uniform title</h3>
<p>The title used for cataloging purposes when a work has appeared under more than one title (such
as translations into several languages), or when the work being cataloged is of a collective
nature, such as "Complete Works."</p>
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<a id="United Nations documents" name="United Nations documents"></a>United Nations documents</h3>
<p>Publications produced by the United Nations. These documents are housed in the Government
Documents Library and in the Main Stacks.</p>
<h3>URL</h3>
<p>An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It represents a unique location or "address" of a
resource located on the 
<a href="#worldwideweb">World Wide Web</a>; similar to a 
<a href="#callnumber">call number</a> for library materials.</p>
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<a id="vertical file" name="vertical file"></a>vertical file</h3>
<p>A file cabinet or file box containing a collection of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, or other
small published items.</p>
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<a id="volume" name="volume"></a>volume</h3>
<p>Contains the total collection of all sequential issues of a 
<a href="#periodical">periodical</a> or 
<a href="#newspaper">newspaper</a> over a given time period.</p>
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<a id="withdrawn" name="withdrawn"></a>withdrawn</h3>
<p>Items that are no longer in the library collection.</p>
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<a id="worldwideweb" name="worldwideweb"></a>World Wide Web</h3>
<p>A client-server information system that uses the Internet to access computers containing
millions of hypertext documents.</p>
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<a id="writers' workshop" name="writers' workshop"></a>Writers' Workshop</h3>
<p>Free one-to-one assistance in all facets of composition provided by tutors. Located in Room 251
of the Undergraduate Library (333-8796). Services are available by appointment or on a walk-in
basis.</p>
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<a id="xerox" name="xerox"></a>Xerox</h3>
<p>Registered trademark often misused as a generic term for photocopying.</p>
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<a id="yearbook" name="yearbook"></a>yearbook</h3>
<p>An annual compendium of facts and statistics on a particular subject for the preceding year.</p>
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<a id="Z" name="Z"></a>- Z -</h2>