Library Definitions

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3. Lending and borrowing services that give you access to materials that are not owned by the library.
4. The complete information needed to find a particular item. For books, it includes the author's name, title, publisher, and date of publication. For periodical articles, it includes the author and title of the article, plus the name of the magazine or journal, the volume, date, and page numbers of the issue in which the article appears.
5. A periodical for general reading, quick information, or entertainment, frequently containing advertising for consumer products.
8. What a library owns.
10. Books, articles, or other materials that an instructor has assigned for a class to read and therefore placed in a designated section in the library.
13. A collection of information, or records, stored in electronic form that can be searched by using a computer. Examples: Academic Search Elite, CQ Resercher, WorldCat, Medline.
14. The entire article from a magazine or journal available electronically via a computer
15. The term or search terms entered in the search screen that will be searched in more than one field; for example, the selected terms(s) could be found in the title, abstract, subject, or text fields of a document.
16. A periodical or magazine which contains scholarly articles, such as reports of original research, published by a professional group or non-commercial publisher. This type of periodical contains many of the same features as "magazines" such as book reviews and letters to the editor, but they do not contain advertising for consumer products.

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1. A list of books, magazine articles, and other materials, usually on a particular topic or by a particular author.
2. Another term for "subject heading," usually used in the context of electronic databases.
6. A brief summary, usually of an article, or book, or chapter in a book.
7. Words that are used in electronic databases or catalogs to expand or limit the results of a search, including such words as "and," "or," and "not."
9. In an electronic database, a part of a record that contains a particular type of data, such as a title, or descriptors, or an abstract.
11. Acronym for Portable Document Format; a file format that provides an electronic image of text or text and graphics that looks like a printed document and can be viewed, printed, and electronically transmitted.
12. The process by which you can extend the loan period for a book. At the Hessel Library, one can request this in person, by phone, or online on the Library's Online Computer.