Limiting by Material Type

You may limit a search to one the following types of materials. If you wish to limit to a more specific format, limit by location.

  • Artifacts: Three-dimensional artifacts and naturally occurring objects (e.g., games, sculptures, clothing, toys).

  • Books, serials: Printed, textual material (e.g., books, technical reports, newspapers, journals, annuals).

  • Computer files: Information encoded in a manner that allows processing by computer. Files may be stored on a variety of media (e.g., disks, cd-roms) or accessible remotely (i.e., via the internet).

  • Kits: A mixture of various components issued as a unit in which no one component predominates (e.g., a publication consisting of videos, compact discs, printed material, and posters.)

  • Manuscripts: Textual materials intended to exist as a single instance (e.g., handwritten documents, single typescripts, unpublished theses).

  • Maps, printed: Cartographic materials (e.g., maps, globes, navigational charts).

  • Maps, mscript: Manuscript cartographic materials.

  • Mixed formats: Collections of materials accumulated by or about a person or body, in which no one type of material predominates (e.g., an archival collection of books, scrapbooks, photographs, and realia).

  • Music, printed: Printed music (e.g., full scores, miniature scores, piano-vocal scores, guitar music, songs).

  • Music, mscript: Manuscript music.

  • Posters: Two-dimensional non-projected graphic materials (e.g., posters, drawings, charts, pictures, prints).

  • Records, music: Musical sound recordings (e.g., operas, symphonies, folk music, rock songs).

  • Records, words: Nonmusical sound recordings (e.g., plays, poems, stories, bird calls, sound effects).

  • Videos: Projected medium (e.g., videos, DVDs, slides).



Contact page author: Sharon Saunders
Date:8/18/2009


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