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• Blocks, usually of wood, that either are cut to print an image, whether on paper, fabric, or other material, or that support other materials that form the actual printing surface. Use a more specific term when possible. For metal printing surfaces, prefer "printing plates."

• Permits required by local governmental bodies for new building, or for major alteration or expansion of existing structures. Applications, building plans, estimated costs, and a fee are usually required before a permit is issued.

• 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.

• Biospecimens that are taken from humans or animals, that are used for research or storage.

• Drafts of proposed laws introduced in a legislative body.

• Records in which are entered sequential data, especially about activities or transactions that occur in a system.

• Documents that serve as the evidence or record of cash and credit sales, including sales orders, tickets, slips, invoices, journals and summaries, and customers' ledgers.

• Sets of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food.

• Books with blank pages used for assembling and presenting a collection, or any unpublished sets of pages that are bound or loose-leaf and have other materials affixed to them or writing or other images made on them.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.

• Serials published at stated, frequent intervals, such as daily or weekly, and containing news, editorials, features, advertisements, and other items of current interest.

• The broad class of photographs having images composed of more than one hue, plus the neutral tones. For photographs having a range of tones within one hue, see "black-and-white photographs."

• Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.

• Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use the simple term "prints." With regard to photographs, prefer "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."