Archive for the ‘Library lingo’ Category
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - phoebe
Festschrift is one of those great German "portmanteau" (or "suitcase") words. Fest means "celebration" and schrift is a "written thing," and a Festschrift is a publication celebrating something - most often a distinguished senior academic's birthday (65th, 70th, or older!) or retirement. Often a Festschrift is an edited book that ...
Posted in Books, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo by phoebe | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 - phoebe
Wait, what's a citation?
A citation is the information about a scholarly resource: author's name, title, source (journal or book or whatever), page numbers, year. It's the information you include in the bibliography when you write a paper, and it's the information a GALILEO database will give you when you do ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - phoebe
What is the Bindery?
Sometimes you will see "bindery" listed as a location in the online GIL catalog. This most often occurs with print journals, and most often appears in the spring. Why? A print journal may arrive at the library quarterly, monthly, or even more often than that. The individual ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009 - phoebe
A database in library-speak isn't something in Microsoft Access - we use this term to refer to the online sites that collect journal articles and make them searchable by keyword. Popular library databases include JStor, Academic Search Complete, and Medline. These databases are often provided by private companies (brand names ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009 - phoebe
[caption id="attachment_1303" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Typical microfilm reel; image courtesy of the Oregon State University Archives."][/caption]
Microfilm is a technology, popular in the 1970s, that allows the preservation of information in a small space. Images of each page of a document were photographed and preserved on film. For example, page images of ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
When the status column on a record in the Law Library's catalog, GAVEL, shows 'REQUEST' this means that the item may be requested by the patron at the circulation desk. This initiates a process whereby staff retrieve the item from a faculty member's office collection or other special locations. ...
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