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• Books with blank pages used for assembling and presenting a collection, or any unpublished sets of pages that are bound or loose-leaf and have other materials affixed to them or writing or other images made on them. The volume may have been constructed with blank pages that were intended to have materials affixed, or it may have been assembled after having had materials affixed to separate pages.

Use for: Journals

• Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. Use "journals (accounts)" when referring to an individual's or an organization's account of occurrences or transactions.

• Direct observation and descriptive study of the culture and way of life of particular societies.

• Handwritten documents, particularly books and other documents created before the invention of the printing press. May also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

• Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen. For similar depictions on a sphere, see "globes (cartographic spheres)."

• Works presented in the form of a series of pictures carried on photographic film or video tape, presented to the eye in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement. For the study and practice of filmmaking and motion pictures as an art and form of expression, use

• Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.

• Books for recording engagements; usually containing calendars.

• Documents, enforceable by law, embodying agreements between two or more competent parties to do or not to do something, and specifying the terms and conditions of the agreement.

• Reprographic machines that produce copies from a stencil, operated manually, and that use a particular type of ink and chemistry.

• Enumerations of names, addresses, and other data about specific groups of persons or organizations; may appear in alphabetic or graphic format.

• Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.

• Books used by teachers to record marks indicating students' grades, levels of accomplishment, or quality of academic work.

• Outlines or brief statements of the main points of a lecture or course of study.

• Pictorial images, usually drawings, that are humorous or that use wit and satire to comment on contemporary events, social habits, political trends, or other topical subjects, often executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. Originally referred to full-page illustrations in a circulating paper or periodical, especially when comical and relating to current events.

• Mechanical devices meant for lighting cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

Use for: Biographies

• Written accounts of the lives of individuals. For the genre regardless of medium, prefer

Use for: Resumes

• Brief records of one's personal history, career, qualifications, and experience, such as that submitted with a job application.