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A-C
| Term | Definition |
| Abstract | A brief summary of a work which tells enough to allow a reader to decide whether or not it is relevant to their research. |
| Atlas | An atlas is a collection of maps in book form. |
| Authentication | The process of identifying an individual usually based on a username and password. |
| Bibliographic Citation Manager | RefWorks is an online research management and writing tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. |
| Bibliography | A list of citations or suggested resources which appear at the end of a paper, article, chapter or book. There are also books entirely made up of bibliographies. These are usually a compilation of citations on a particular subject or by a particular author. |
| Boolean (searching) | Boolean logic refers to the logical relationship among search terms. The Boolean search operators are AND, OR, and NOT. |
| Browser | Internet browser, a new window for Internet Explorer or Firefox. |
| Call Number | A combination of numbers and letters that is given to each item held in the library. The letters and numbers assigned to the work describe its subject matter and serves as its address on the shelf. The library uses the Dewey Decimal system to assign call numbers which are located on the book’s spine. |
| Call Number vs. Subject Heading | A book, etc., only has one call number because it is used for shelf location, while an item may have multiple subject headings to describe its contents. |
| Catalog Record | Found in the library catalog, this includes all information on any given library item, including a description of the item, author, title, subject headings, notes, and the call number. |
| Circulating vs. Non-circulating | Materials that can be borrowed by a student and taken out of the library are circulating items. Library materials, such as reference books and periodicals, which can be used by students but not taken out of the library, are non-circulating items. |
| Citation | A reference to a work, such as a book or a journal article. When you look at a bibliography or search an index, you retrieve citations. They provide the author, title, publication place, and year of a work and other pieces of information, such as journal title, volume and page numbers. |
| Command Line (Searching) | Command line searching is the ability to limit the fields that are searched by using abbreviated codes for those fields, e.g. au for author, ti for title, py for publication year, de for descriptor (subject), etc. |
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