Library science

The Name Authority File (German: Personennamendatei or PND) is an authority file of people, which served primarily to access literature in libraries.

Reading comprehension is the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning.

The International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organisations (ISIL), ISO 15511, assigns unique identifiers to libraries and related organisations, such as archives and museums.

A bookmobile or mobile library is a vehicle designed for use as a library.

Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, or document supply) is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library.

An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication.

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is a bibliographic and library classification developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century.

The Integrated Authority File (German: Gemeinsame Normdatei, also known as: Universal Authority File) or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues.

In library science, authority control is a process that organizes bibliographic information, for example in library catalogs by using a single, distinct spelling of a name (heading) or a numeric identifier for each topic.

Bibliometrics is statistical analysis of written publications, such as books or articles.

A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, providing access to information and sometimes social or technical programming.

MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) standards are a set of digital formats for the description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books.

Source criticism (or information evaluation) is the process of evaluating an information source, i.

In library and information science, cataloging (or cataloguing) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc.

A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition, typography, etc.

A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes.

A teacher-librarian (TL), school librarian, or school library media specialist (SLMS), is a certified librarian who also has training in teaching.

A list of publisher codes for (978) International Standard Book Numbers with a group code of zero.

A list of publisher codes for (978) International Standard Book Numbers with a group code of one.

Knowledge organization (KO) (or "organization of knowledge", "organization of information" or "information organization") is a branch of Library and Information Science (LIS) concerned with activities such as document description, indexing and classification performed in libraries, databases, archives, etc.

A digital asset in essence is anything that exists in a binary format and comes with the right to use.

A Public Lending Right (PLR) programme, is a programme intended to either compensate authors for the potential loss of sales from their works being available in public libraries, or as a governmental support of the arts, through support of works available in public libraries, such as books, music and artwork.

Information access is an area of research at the intersection of Informatics, Information Science, Information Security, Language Technology, Computer Science, and Library Science.

An information source is a source of information for somebody, i.