| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Fiction | Made up stories and novels |
| Non-Fiction | Books that are about real-world subjects and are fact based |
| Biography | Stories about real people |
| Periodical | Magazines or journals with both fictional and non-fictional content |
| Non-print materials | Musical recordings, videotapes, filmstrips, and audio books |
| Electronic or Card catalog | Systems for finding materials in a library; organization is by author, title, keyword and subject |
| Call Number | The assigned filing number that is located on a book's spine |
| Thesaurus | A reference book that gives synonyms and antonyms |
| Dictionary | Gives a word's origin, pronunciation, syllable breaks, spelling and definition |
| Encyclopedia | A reference book that gives information on a wide variety of topics; its entries are in alphabetical order |
| Atlas | A book of maps |
| Phone book | A book that gives phone numbers, addresses, zip codes and area codes |
| Almanac | A book that gives historical data for a given year or time span for a particular area |
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