Glossary of Terms

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Bibliography:

A listing of items consulted while preparing a piece of writing or presentation on a subject. Usually these items are books, articles, and other sources such as interviews and films. A bibliography usually appears at the end of a work or chapter of a book.

Bibliographies on specific subjects may also be published as self-contained books.



Boolean logic:

A type of searching that uses the operators AND, & OR to combine search terms.
AND means that both words you specify must be included in the search results.
Eg. 'tertiary AND education'.
OR means that either one word, the other word, or both words can be included in search results. It is often used between synonyms (as in this example).
Eg. 'tertiary OR university'.


Borrow:

The process of loaning materials to use outside the Library building. A student or staff ID card is required. Items are borrowed on the self-checkers or at the service desk of the Library and a due date slip is issued.



Bound:

When the Library has a complete set of a journal for one year (all the issues) they are bound in one volume (in the one cover). When searching for journals on the shelf bound journals look like a book.