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• Books published annually as a compendium, report, or summary of the statistics or facts of a calendar year and intended as reference books, limited to a special subject.

• Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.

• Thin, round, flexible disks with magnetic surfaces for storing and retrieving data.

• Flat, thin, usually small objects, made of metal, clay, ivory, glass, or basketry, sometimes set into a surface for decoration or to bear an inscription.

Use for: Data sets

• Information, especially digital information. In common usage in computer science, used as a singular noun to refer to information that exists in a form that may be used by a computer, excluding the program code. In the sciences and other contexts, "datum" is the singular and "data" is the plural, referring to facts or numbers in a general sense. For general reference to facts, use "information."

• Pieces of wood, paper, cord, cloth, or another material dipped in melted sulfur, phosphorus, or another composition that is readily ignited by friction with a flint or when rubbed against a roughened surface, or when brought into contact with a chemical reagent. Sulfur matches were recorded in China by the 6th century. The first modern, self-igniting match was invented in 1805 by Jean Chancel.

• Film genre that presents fact and real situations and people rather than fiction. They typically feature the people, places, and events who are the subjects of the film, rather than actors or sets. Early examples were influenced by television news and used portable cameras.

• Literature written by travelers, typically describing interesting or exotic places, the inhabitants, and adventures; often illustrated. The genre differs from "travel guidebooks" in not necessarily advising about lodging, food, and sights to see.

• 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.

Use for: Broadsides

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