A periodical intended for the general public rather than for scholars. Examples are Newsweek, Time, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
DVDs, CD-ROMs, CDs, and microforms are collectively termed Media Resources. Some are media reserve items, which means they can only be used within the library premises. Lending items can be borrowed for 7 days.
Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproduction of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used.
Metadata is "data about data". In the Library, we use it for the data that we use to describe the things in the Library's collection. Examples:
When metadata is searchable, we may call them "search fields" when we are using PowerSearch or some other databases.
Wikipedia's article on metadata is a lengthy but useful introduction.
Page numbering is the process of applying a sequence of numbers (or letters, or roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other document.
Legal protection of an invention giving the inventor exclusive rights to develop and sell the invention for profit for a given period of time.
You can learn more on from the Patent LibGuide.
A process through which manuscripts submitted to a journal are evaluated for quality by one or more subject experts in addition to the editor before being accepted for publication.
Any publication issued at regular intervals (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly) that has no specified ending date: e.g., journals, magazines, newspapers.
A link that will return you to the same page every time you click the link.
Using another person's ideas or exact wording without due credit.
An original object, document, or record of events, normally referred to as first-hand information. Primary source materials can be a diary, a newspaper article, a public record, results of an experiment, survey data, statistical data, art objects, etc.
The date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
Abbreviation for Quick Response code. A two-dimensional bar code that is made of small squares in a unique pattern. QR codes allow users to connect to additional resources through mobile devices.
