Library

Library

A collection of books, references, sources, services organized and maintained by a public entity, an institution, or a private individual.

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Browse searching

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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 ...

Copyright

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The legal right to control the production, use, and sale of copies of a literary, musical, or artistic work.

Biography

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A written account of a person's life, or some portion of their life written by some other person.

This term can apply to two types of publications: 1) A Periodical intended for the employees of a company providing news and other items of interest for those employees, or 2) A Periodical covering ...

Range

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A row of book shelves, usually double-faced, anywhere in the library. Range is sometimes synonymous with Stack.

Online database

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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.

Hits

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Refers to items retrieved from a database matching criteria you set. For example, if a keyword title search in the online catalogue for "linguistics" that yields 38 items, that can also be called 38 ...