Barcode Number
The 14-digit number appearing beneath the barcode found in the beginning or end papers of a book. Barcode numbers for Pace library books begin with the numbers " 3 5061" and are used to charge, discharge, and renew books on the online computer system. Your Pace University I.D. should have a barcode on the back as well, which begins with " 2 5061." If you do not have a barcode sticker on your I.D., go to the Circulation Desk at any of the Pace University Library locations.

Circulation Desk
A service desk where books and other materials can be checked out. Library materials which do not circulate (reference books and some periodicals, for example) can only be used within the library.

Hold
A library user may place a hold on a book charged out to another person; this ensures that the person placing the hold will be next in line to receive the book when the book is returned.

Interlibrary Loan Services
Interlibrary lending and borrowing services provide access to materials that cannot be found in the Pace Library system. To borrow such materials, check with a reference librarian or use ILLiad, the online Interlibrary Loan system.

Recall
Books that you have checked out may be recalled from you if needed for a course Reserve. A recall notice will ask you to bring the book back early--respond to it promptly! A fine of 50 cents per day per item will be charged for recalled items not returned by the recall date. Failure to return recalled items will result in suspension of borrowing privileges until the items are returned.

Renewal
An extension of the loan period for charged library materials. Renewals may be handled in person at the circulation desk, by phone, or online via the Pace Library Catalog.

Reserve Reading
A selection of specific books, periodical articles and other materials which faculty have indicated that students must read for a particular course. These materials are kept together at the Circulation Desk and circulate for a short period of time only. To locate reserve materials, you may use the Pace Library Catalog or ask at the Circulation or Reference desk. Each library has its own reserve system. 

Bibliography
A bibliography is a list of citations for books, periodical articles or other materials. Published bibliographies on specific subjects are often found in the Reference Collection. 

Citation
Information which fully identifies a publication; a complete citation usually includes author, title, name of journal (if the citation is to an article) or publisher (if to a book), and date. Often pages, volumes and other information will be included in a citation.

Periodical Indexes and Abstracts (also known as Databases)
Periodical indexes list articles which have appeared in journals, magazines, or newspapers. They list author, title, name of periodical, volume, pages and date of publication. Abstracts are indexes that also contain summaries of the content of the article. Both indexes and abstracts are found in reference departments. They may be in print form, on a CD-ROM terminal, or in an online database available via the Internet.

Reference
A special department within a library where you can find librarians and a collection of reference materials to help you with your research needs.

Reference Collection
A selection of library materials used by reference librarians to help people find information or to do research. Reference collections contain many sources of information, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, directories, or statistical compilations. They may also have bibliographies, indexes and abstracts. Reference materials usually do not leave the library.

Reference Librarian
Reference Librarians are specialists in the field of information retrieval. Generally they have a Master's degree in library science, and many have other graduate degrees as well. They are available at reference desks to help you find the information you are looking for.

Call Numbers
Each item in a library collection is classified in a subject area by some classification system. These call numbers are placed on the spine of the book to locate it in the stacks. Call numbers are entered on the records in the Pace Library Catalog and on the cards in the card catalog to help you find the book. At Pace we use Library of Congress call numbers, a combination of letters and numbers (e.g., PQ 1756 .I15 1990).

Pace Library Catalog
A computerized catalog that contains records which represent books, journal titles and other items in the Pace University Library collections.

Cross Reference
A term used in catalogs, thesauruses and indexes to lead you from one form of entry to another (e.g., American poets see Poets--American).

Keyword Searching
Keyword searching allows a user to construct a search by looking for a word or combination of words from the author, title, or subject fields of the Pace Library Catalog. For more information, see Pace Library Catalog Help.

Stacks
The stacks are the part of the library which houses its circulating collection. Books and periodicals are arranged on shelves in the stacks. 

Subject Headings
Words or phrases assigned to books and articles and used to index these items by topic. Descriptors determining the correct headings for a specific database or catalog is an important part of effective research. See also Thesaurus.

Thesaurus
A list of all the subject headings or descriptors used in a particular database, catalog, or index. The thesaurus for the Pace Library Catalog is called Library of Congress Subject Headings.

World Wide Web
A client-server information system that uses the Internet to access computers containing millions of hypertext documents. 

Media
Films, tapes and other audio-visual materials that require the use of special listening or viewing equipment.

Microforms
Documents, often ones that are bulky or liable to deteriorate rapidly, which have been photographed and reduced in size to reduce the storage space required and to preserve them. Common formats for microforms are microfilm, microfiche, or microcard. Newspapers, magazines and government documents are available in microform in the Pace University Library.

Periodicals
Publications which are issued at least twice a year, including journals, magazines and newspapers. Current periodicals are those which have recently arrived. In Mortola Library and the Graduate Center Library current periodicals are kept at the Circulation Desk. In the Birnbaum Library current periodicals can be retrieved from the Periodicals desk on the second floor. Bound periodicals are back issues which have been sent to the bindery, covered with a binding, and returned to the library. In the Mortola Library the Bound periodicals are self-service, while in the Birnbaum Library they can be requested at the Periodicals desk. Records for periodical titles are labeled as serials in the Pace Library Catalog. See also the next entry, Serials.

Serials
Publications that appear more or less regularly--daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, or biennally, for example. 

Accession Number
A unique number or combination of letters and numbers assigned to each record in a database.

Boolean Searching, see Operators

CD-ROM
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory. A computer-based technique for storing and reading information from a compact disk using a CD player and a personal computer.

Database
Databases are electronic indexes containing records which represent items that exist in print. (Databases contain records which represent types of documents such as periodical articles, conference proceedings, books, or book chapters, and more) .

Entry: See Record

Field
A part of a record used for a particular category of data. For instance, the title field displays the title for each record in the database. Some of the other fields in databases are author, journal and abstract. The Pace Library Catalog contains additional fields that give the description, call number, location, holdings, and circulation status of an item at Pace.

Holdings
A set of fields in the Pace Library Catalog in a serial record that shows exactly which years and volumes of that serial are available at one of the Pace libraries. Records for multivolume books also contain a holdings field. 

Menu
Choices and commands that are displayed on the screen and can be selected by the user.

Operators
Words such as AND, OR, and NOT that are used to combine search terms to broaden or narrow the results of a search. Combining terms using operators is sometimes called Boolean searching.

Record
A collection of related data, arranged in fields and treated as a unit. The data for each article in a CD-ROM or online database makes up a record. The complete information for each item in the Pace Library Catalog is also a record.

Set Number
Represents the number of articles found for each word or combination of words in a search. In many databases the set number is preceded by the letter s or a pound sign (#) and may often be combined with an additional subject (e.g., s2 and meterology; #3 and anorexia).

Truncation
Typing a special symbol at the end of a word to retrieve all possible endings of that word. If you wish to truncate a word while searching the Pace Library Catalog, use the asterisk (*); other databases may use the pound sign (#), the asterisk (*), or another symbol. For example, performing a Keyword search on forest* in the Pace Library Catalog retrieves forest, forestry, forests, forested, etc.