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Glossary This glossary consists of working definitions of terms used in and related to Gleeson Library | Geschke Center.Abstract A brief description or summary of a book, article, or other document, often written by the author or a professional indexer. Access Point A searchable field in a database or catalog record. Common access points in an online library catalog or library database include author, title, and subject fields. Acquisitions Department in the library responsible for ordering and purchasing materials for the library's collections. Annotated Bibliography A bibliography that includes brief descriptive notes about each citation. Annotation An objective or evaluative note about a book, article, or other document. Archives Located in the Lower Level of Gleeson Library, Room 12, the University Archives collects and preserves documents of historical, legal, fiscal, or administrative value to USF. Yearbooks, student publications, faculty publications, photographs, commencement brochures, athletic programs, student handbooks, ephemera of the presidents and university life are available for viewing or research purposes. Contact information. Author Person, persons, or organization responsible for the creation of a work (book, article, document, etc.) Bibliographic Record A record in an online library catalog such as Ignacio. Bibliographic records describe books and other items that a library owns. Bibliography A list of citations that appear at the end of an article, chapter, book, or research paper. There are also books entirely made up of bibliographies. These are usually compilations of citations on a specific subject or author. Bindery The library sends periodicals and theses to a professional bindery where the individual periodical issues and thesis pages are gathered together, respectively, into hard-cover book format. Damaged books are also sent to the bindery to have their covers replaced. Binding is done to preserve materials for longer use. Materials sent to the bindery are out of the library for at least four weeks. Boolean Operators or Boolean Logic Used to formulate search statements in databases and catalogs. The three Boolean operators are AND, OR, and NOT. Examples:Call Number A combination of letters and numbers that is given to each item held in Gleeson Library except periodicals. The letters and numbers assigned to the item describe its subject matter and serves as its address on the shelf. USF uses the Library of Congress Classification System to assign its call numbers. Example:Card Catalog See Online Library Catalog Cash2Card Machine Machine that allows you to make a cash deposit to your Don Dollars account and check your balance. There is a Cash2Card Machine near the exit of Gleeson Library. Catalog See Online Library Catalog Cataloging Department in the library responsible for describing and organizing items in the library's collection so they can be found by patrons. Catalogers create individual records for each item the library owns, and these records are added to the Online Library Catalog, Ignacio. CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) A thin disk similar to a music CD, but that contains any kind of computer data. In Gleeson Library, some periodical indexes and reference sources are available on CD-ROM. They may be quickly and conveniently searched at a computer workstation. Chinese Library Library of the Ricci Institute located at the Lone Mountain campus. The Chinese Library includes an extensive collection of Chinese books and materials collected since the founding of the Institute in 1984. More information. Circulating Material Any library material which can be checked-out of the library. Most library circulating materals are located in the stacks. Circulation Desk Designated desk in the library where you check-out, return, or renew books, and pay overdue fines. Circulation staff can help patrons locate items that cannot be found on the shelves. Items requested through Interlibrary Loan and Link+ can be picked up at the Circulation Desk in Gleeson Library. Citation Information about a specific work (book, article, dissertation, report, video, etc.) or portion of a work that is used to identify or locate that item. Parts of a citation include author, title, place of publication, publisher, and page numbers. Examples of citations:Controlled Vocabulary A set of standardized terms used in organizing and searching databases. Also referred to as subject headings or descriptors. Searching databases using controlled vocabulary instead of just keywords usually results in more relevant results. A database's controlled vocabulary can be identified by searching its thesaurus, if one is available. Copy Center Located on the ground floor of Xavier Hall at the corner of Golden Gate & Parker, the Copy Center provides a variety of printing services such as large copy jobs, color copying, bindery, and printing to overheads. Copyright The right granted to an author, composer, artist, creator, etc, by a government to publish and sell a work. For information on reproducing or using copyrighted material, see the University of Texas's Copyright Crash Course. Database A collection of computer data, organized into records, which can be searched. Library databases usually contain records representing books, articles, and other library materials. Descriptors See Controlled Vocabulary Dissertation A thesis reporting original research that is a requirement for a PhD or EdD (Doctorate in Education) degree. Document Delivery A special service for students, faculty and staff from USF's regional campuses and distance programs that sends books and articles from Gleeson Library via mail, fax or email. More information. Don Dollars A USF on-campus debit account. Anybody with a current USF ID Card or Special Borrower's card is eligible to have a Don Dollars account. Cardholders deposit money into their account, and then makes purchases which are then debited from the available balance in the account. Printing in the library and computer labs must be paid for with Don Dollars. All USF ID Card holders automatically have Don Dollars accounts and may use any Cash2Card Machine to make a deposit to their accounts. Special borrowers can have their account activated at the Circulation Desk. Guests who have no card must open a Don Dollars account at the USF OneCard Office. More information. Donna (G) Drive See G: Drive Donna (H) Drive See H: Drive Donohue Rare Book Room See Rare Book Room Dons Print A "pay-as-you-go" printing system at campus libraries and computer labs. Print jobs must be paid with Don Dollars, loaded on your USF ID Card. Due date Date when a borrowed library item must be returned. Duplicating Center See Copy Center Ebook (electronic book) An online book that can be read on a computer. The library has access to approximately 12,000 full-text ebooks. Ebooks can be found and accessed via Ignacio, the online library catalog. Editor Person who prepares a work for publication by doing one or more of these tasks: revising text, writing an introduction or notes, or compiling text in the case of a work with multiple authors. E-Journal or Electronic Journal An online journal that is either an online version of a printed journal or a journal that is available only online. Email Reference Service where patrons can have basic reference questions answered by reference librarians via email. Go to email reference. ERIC Document Education-related documents made available by the Educational Resources Information Center. ERIC documents are available on microfiche located in the Periodicals Department, and many recent ERIC documents are also available online via the ERIC database. Ethernet A high speed local area wired network connecting computers on the USF campus. An ethernet jack looks similar to a phone jack, but is larger. In the library, there are many active ethernet jacks available to connect to laptops (an ethernet cable is required). See also PubNet See also Wireless Federal Depository Library A library that receives U.S. government publications. Federal publications and other information products are made available for free public use in Federal depository libraries throughout the United States. Gleeson Library is a partial federal depository library that collects around 30% of the publications produced by federal agencies and departments. Field Discrete segment of a database record. Examples of fields in library database records include title, author, publication date and subject. Folios A large or oversized book. Folios in Gleeson Library are shelved in the North Wing of the 3rd Floor. Full-text The complete text of a document. Many library databases provide the full-text of articles and books. G: Drive The G drive is an area on the USF network where faculty can make documents available to be shared with their students. Government Documents Department and area in Gleeson Library that collects, processes, and houses U.S. Government publications received through the Federal Depository Library Program. Government publication Informational matter issued, published, or financed by a government agency. Government produced information comes in many formats including printed paper, microfiche, audiovisual materials, CD-ROMs, diskettes, and online via the Internet. Govt Docs Number Call number assigned to government publications. Also called SuDoc (Superintendent of Documents) number. Government Document numbers correspond to issuing government agencies. H: Drive The H: drive is an area on the USF network where students to temporarily save files. The information stored on this drive can be accessed from any computer connected to the network. Each student has their own space, and only that student can access his or her folder. More information. Hold A request for a library item. A patron may place a hold on an item currently on loan to another patron, or on an item that is on order or being processed. That patron will then be next in line to use the item as soon as it becomes available. Holds may be placed by clicking on the "Place Hold" button in Ignacio for the item wanted. Hold items are kept at the Circulation Desk in Gleeson Library. (Regional and distance students should use Document Delivery to place and receive holds). See also Link+ Holdings The items a library owns. Ignacio Online library catalog for books, periodicals, and other materials owned by USF libraries. Go to Ignacio. ILL See Interlibrary Loan Index An alphabetical list of subjects, authors, or titles used in a book or set of volumes with corresponding page numbers. An index can also be a separate work used to locate information in other sources. See also Periodical Index Interlibrary Loan Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service for patrons to get books, theses, and articles not available at USF. (Regional and distance students should use the Document Delivery service instead of ILL). More information. See also Link+ Internet A large computer network made up of smaller networks distributed around the world. The most widely known section of the Internet is the world wide web. ISBN (International Standard Book Number) A unique ten-digit identification number assigned to a book. ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) A unique eight-digit identification number assigned to a serial. ITS (Information Technology Services) Department at USF responsible for computing and networking services to students, faculty and staff, including email accounts and access to several computer labs. More Information. See also ITS Computers ITS Computers Located on the northeast corner of the first floor, and the north side of the second floor in Gleeson Library are 40 personal use computers with Internet access, email, word processing, and many other applications. These computers are not maintained by the library. Please contact the ITS lab monitor on the second floor, or the ITS Department for assistance. In addition to the computers in the library, ITS maintains other computer labs on campus. Jesuit Community Library Library of Loyola House, the Jesuit Residence at USF on the Lone Mountain campus. This is a private library. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center should have its own copies of everything in the Jesuit Community Library. Journal A periodical, usually either a trade publication or a scholarly publication. See also Magazine See also Newspaper Journal Finder Gleeson Library's search tool to see if a particular periodical is part of the library's print periodical collection, or is available full-text in an online database. Go to the Journal Finder Keyword Search A broad word or phrase search in a database. A keyword search may search several fields of each database record such as title, author, abstract, and subject, or may search the entire record including the full-text. See also Subject Search Laptop connections See PubNet Librarian Librarians hold a Master's degree or higher in Library and Information Science, and are specialists in collecting, organizing and locating information. See also Library Assistant See also Reference Librarian See also Student Library Assistant Library Assistant Library assistants provide high-level library support, and work in all departments of the library. See also Librarian See also Student Library Assistant Library of Congress Classification System A system of classifying books and other library materials by subject and call numbers developed and maintained by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Library Record The online listing of all of the library items currently checked-out, requested, and held for a particular patron. Go to view your library record. See also Library PIN Link+ (Link Plus) A patron-initiated library service that links the online library catalogs of over 30 libraries in California, and allows patrons to request a book from another library that is currently checked out at USF or than we don't own. (Regional and distance students should use Document Delivery instead of Link +). More Information. Magazine A popular-interest periodical usually containing articles on a variety of topics, written by various authors in a non-scholarly style. See also Journal See also Newspaper Manuscript An author's handwritten or typed work. Manuscripts in library collections are often of historical or literary significance. Map cabinet File in the Government Documents Room where large maps are kept. Microfiche A rectangular sheet of photographic film with images of printed documents on it that can be read and copied only with a reader-printer machine. Many ERIC documents and some government publications are available in microfiche format. See also Microfilm See also Microform Microfilm Rolls of phohotographic film with images of printed documents that can be read and copied only with a reader-printer machine. At Gleeson Library, many older issues of newspapers and other periodicals are available on microfilm. See also Microfiche See also Microform Microform A general term used for any type of micro-format including microfiche and microfilm. In any type of microform, the printed material is greatly reduced in size and can be read only with the aid of a reader-printer machine. Monograph A book on a single subject, complete in one physical piece, and comprehensive in scope. Newsletter A short publication containing news and information of interest to a special group. Newspaper A periodical issued at frequent intervals (.i.e., daily, weekly, or semi-weekly), containing news, opinions, advertisements, and other items of current, often local, interest. Because of their unique storage requirements, newspapers are traditionally stored separately from other periodicals. See also Journal See also Magazine Network A group of computers that are connected together usually for purposes of communication and resource sharing. Online A document or other resource which is accessible via a computer network is said to be online. Online Library Catalog A database accessible via the Internet that describes the contents of one or several libraries' collections. The online library catalog at USF is called Ignacio. You can search Ignacio to find books, periodicals, and other items held by the USF Libraries. Go to Ignacio. Online Database A database accessible via the Internet. Most of the library's databases are online. OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) See Online Library Catalog. Pamphlet File Cabinet in the Government Documents Room where grants and other applications, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publications, Social Security Administration pamphlets and guides, many National Park Service, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service maps and brochures, and other miscellaneous pamphlets, generally 20 pages or less, are kept. Patron A person who uses library materials and services. Patron Record See Library Record Peer Review A process where articles are reviewed and critiqued by subject experts prior to acceptance for publication. A peer-reviewed journal is one which uses this process. See also Scholarly Source Periodical A publication that comes out at regular intervals, usually more than once a year, is numbered and dated successively, and contains articles, stories, or other writings. Periodicals include journals and magazines. Newspapers, because of their unique storage requirements, are traditionally kept separately from other periodicals. The library's periodicals are located on the 2nd floor of the library. See also Periodical Index Periodical Index A searchable guide to the contents of a periodical or a group of periodicals. You can use a periodical index to find articles about a certain topic, by a certain author, or in a specific publication. Periodical indexes may be in print or database format. Periodicals Department Department on the 2nd floor the library that manages the library's periodicals collection. Primary Source A document containing first-hand information or original research. Primary sources can include original manuscripts, periodical articles, diaries, memoirs, letters, photographs, drawings, films, newspapers, or interviews. See also Secondary Source Proxy A faculty proxy is a person authorized by a faculty member to borrow and search for library materials for the faculty member's use. More information. PubNet A network designed for use with ethernet-ready laptop computers. There are 50 PubNet connections in Gleeson Library. More information. See also Wireless Rare Book Room The Donohue Rare Book Room houses the Library's special collections. More information. Recall See Hold Record A single item in a database, often consisting of several fields of data. A record in an online library catalog or library database typically represents a book or an article. Reference See Citation Reference Desk Desk in the library where patrons can ask how to find specific information or how to use the library resources. In Gleeson Library, the Reference Desk is staffed by reference librarians, library assistants, or student library assistants, at all hours the library is open. Reference Librarian A librarian who is a specialist in finding information. Reference Source Any material designed to be consulted when seeking authoritative information. Reference sources include atlases, bibliographies, biographical sources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, and indexes. In Gleeson Library, most reference books are shelved on the first floor in the reference shelves and may not be checked out. See also Circulating Material Refereed See Peer Review Remote Access Off-campus access to the library's online databases. Because most library databases are licensed to USF, remote access to them is available only to current USF students, faculty, and staff. More information. Reserves Materials made available for a class, and given a short loan period (one-hour, three-hours, overnight, 3-day) at the request of the instructor. The Reserve Desk is located on the 1st floor, near the entrance of the library. Scholarly Source Book, journal, journal article, thesis, or other document written in an academic style for and by experts in a particular field. Scholarly sources usually have extensive bibliographies and are often published by a university press or a scholarly society. Search Term Word(s) or phrase(s) entered in an online database to describe the topic you're searching. Secondary Source A work that comments on or builds upon a primary source. Examples of secondary sources include reviews, and works of criticism, analysis, and interpretation. Serial A publication issued under a title with successively numbered and/or dated issues, appearing at regular or irregular intervals and intended to continue indefinitely. Examples of serials include annual reviews, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, and journals. Sorting Area or Sorting Shelves Shelving area on the 2nd floor where periodicals are gathered before re-shelving. If you can't find a periodical on the shelf, it may be in one of the Periodicals sorting area on the north side of the Periodicals desk. Special Borrower's Card Library card available for patrons who are not current USF students, faculty or staff. More information. Special Collections Rare or unique items, including rare books, manuscripts, and personal papers, that require special treatment. See also Rare Book Room Stacks The shelving areas in a library where books and other materials are stored. See also Circulating Materials. Student ID Number See University ID Number Student Library Assistant A USF student employed by the library. Student assistants work in all departments of the library and support the general operations of those departments. See also Librarian See also Library Assistant Style Manual A set of rules or guidelines on formatting research papers and citing sources. Some style manuals are for general use such as the Chicago Manual of Style, whereas others are specific to a discipline such as the style manuals for the American Psychological Association (APA) or the Modern Language Association (MLA). Subject heading See Controlled Vocabulary Subject Search A focused search in a database, frequently using controlled vocabulary. A subject search usually searches only the subject field of each database record. In some databases, subjects are called descriptors. See also Keyword Search SuDoc Number See Govt Docs Number Technical Services Area of library operations responsible for the ordering, cataloging, and processing of library materials. Trade Publication A periodical focusing on information and news relating to a particular trade or industry. Examples include Publisher's Weekly and Advertising Age. Thesaurus A searchable list of the controlled vocabulary used in a database, useful for locating the correct search terms for a subject search. Many research databases, such as CINAHL, ERIC, and Sociological Abstracts, have thesauri. Thesis Written report of original research, usually as the final requirement for an academic degree. See also Dissertation Truncation A symbol, freqently an asterisk (*), placed at the beginning or end of a word stem in a database search to retrieve variants containing the root word. Example:University ID Number Your Social Security Number or USF campus ID number. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) The unique address identifying a resource on the Internet. Example: http://www.usfca.edu/library/User See Patron Web Browser Computer software used to view documents on the world wide web. Web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Safari allow you to click on a link to another document, and get information from a different computer where that resource is stored. Wireless A method of connecting a computer to a network without a wired connection. Wireless network access is available in the library atrium, and other locations on the main campus. More information. See also Pubnet World Wide Web Also known as "the web" and "www." A computer network distributed over thousands of computers around the world. Files and documents on one computer can link to those on other computers, creating a connected structure like a spider's web (hence the name world wide web). See also Internet See also Web Browser The following sources were consulted for gathering information for this glossary: Young, Heartsill, ed. The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1983. |
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