Resources consulted for facts or information, or used to identify materials on a topic.
Abbreviations
(6 resources)
Collections of shortened words or phrases that represent the words or phrases in their entirety.
Alerting services
(10 resources)
Electronic updates that provide the latest information regarding library collections, including journal tables of contents and new acquisitions.
Authority lists
(3 resources)
Lists of the authoritative form of the names of a composer's works.
Bibliographies
(77 resources)
Lists with descriptive or critical notes about writings relating to a particular subject, period, or author.
Biographies
(40 resources)
Resources that provide a written account or specific details about a person's life.
Catalogs
(105 resources)
Resources containing a complete enumeration of items arranged systematically with descriptive details.
Citation tools
(13 resources)
Manuals and software to assist users with formatting bibliographies, papers, journal articles, etc.
Constants, formulae and tables
(13 resources)
Resources that feature unchanging numerical values, facts or principles expressed in mathematical symbols, and/or quantitative information presented in tabular form.
Copyright
(6 resources)
Works dealing with the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, and sell the matter and form of a literary, musical, or artistic work.
Dictionaries
(49 resources)
Reference works containing an alphabetical list of words or phrases with explanations of their meanings.
Directories
(65 resources)
Alphabetical or classified lists (as of names and addresses)
Encyclopedias
(81 resources)
Works that contain information on all branches of knowledge or treat comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge, usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject.
Government publications
(27 resources)
Items published or produced by or for an international, national, state, provincial, or local government agency, or by any subdivision of such an entity.
Guides and finding aids
(50 resources)
Resources providing information about specific archival or or manuscript collections, or assistance in researching the literature of a subject area.
Handbooks and manuals
(18 resources)
Concise ready reference works on a topic.
Indexes and abstracts
(206 resources)
Resources providing bibliographic information or citations to a body of literature corresponding to a criterion such as author, title, keyword or subject.
Lesson plans
(8 resources)
Documents used by teachers to prepare for a class; typically outlining the objectives of the class, topics to be covered, and instructional methods to be used.
Newspapers and news sources
(75 resources)
Current or archival reports about noteworthy events, activities or people.
Patents
(6 resources)
Official documents securing to an inventor for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use or sell his invention.
Properties
(3 resources)
Qualities or traits belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing; effects that an object has on another object or on the senses.
Quotations
(4 resources)
Resources containing compilations of quotes. The collections can be general or comprised of selections from a specific person or pertaining to a specific theme.
Registry numbers
(2 resources)
Resources that list unique numeric identifiers.
Reviews (book, film, etc.)
(31 resources)
Resources that critically examine creative works.
Spectra
(2 resources)
Any of various continua that resemble a spectrum in consisting of an ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic (as frequency or energy)
Standards and codes
(14 resources)
Rules set up by an authority for the measurement of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality, or a system of principles or rules.
Tests
(5 resources)
Tests, or resources that provide information about tests.
Tutorials
(3 resources)
Tools (usually interactive) that provide practical information about a specific subject.
