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• Printed or graphic material intended for promotional or publicity purposes, such as small printed works describing the features or amenities of a place, an organization, or other concern.

Use for: Broadsides

• Format in which a large sheet of paper is printed on only one side, and not folded.

• Describes material or content created in electronic form and saved as digital data, having had no initial or interstitial state as an analog or physical product. Usually used to refer to electronically produced drafts of text, correspondence or visual works such as photographs created with digital cameras. This material may be written or saved on personal computers, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, hard drives, or any mode of digital storage media.

• Reproductive prints of architectural plans, maps, mechanical drawings, and other technical drawings, characterized by having white images on blue backgrounds and produced by the blueprint process. For blue images on white backgrounds, use

• Forms -- which are formulary documents that arrange particular information in a prescribed sequence and format -- that are created with blank spaces, lines, boxes, data entry fields, or other means to prompt users of the form to fill in the particular information. Blank forms may be handwritten, printed, typed, or online. When indexing, this term may be used for such forms whether or not they have been filled in by a user of the form.

• Refers to a broad class of photographs having images in gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue (which can result from chemical processes used, including toning, or from aging).

• Refers to negatives whose images are composed of gray tones, black, and white or clear areas; may include one hue as a result of process, toning, or discoloration.

• Samples of material from humans, animals, or plants, that are used for research or storage. Biospecimens may include samples of DNA, RNA, blood, urine, protein, tissue, or cells.

Use for: Biographies

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

• Drafts of proposed laws introduced in a legislative body.

• Lists of books, documents, and other bibliographical items, often all related by author, topic, or another criterion. Bibliographies are arranged in some logical order giving brief information about the works, such as author, date, publisher, and place of publication.

• Consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape recording format developed by Sony, released in 1975.
• Also sometimes referred to as L-750s

• Containers or receptacles of leather, cloth, paper, or other flexible material, often capable of being closed at the mouth. For ladies' bags intended to carry personal articles, use

• Things conferred or bestowed as a reward for merit, including a prize, reward, honor, document, or remuneration.

• Books, loose-leaf binders, or other volumes containing blank leaves, on which persons have written sentiments, quotations, or signatures.

• Nonprint materials, such as slides, transparencies, motion pictures, or filmstrips, that make use of sight and sound to convey information; refers especially to such materials when used for instruction.

• Sound recordings on magnetic tape.