Prince George's Community College

301 Largo Road
Largo, Maryland 20774

A shortened version of a book or other document.

A brief summary of the contents of an article or book, or multimedia. Many computerized databases include abstracts in addition to citations.

A list of information sources on a particular subject or by a particular author.

Words such as AND, OR, NOT and AND NOT that are used to combine search terms to narrow or broaden a search.

Older issues of magazines and journals that have been joined together in one hard cover volume.

A combination of letters and numbers that give a unique "address" of a book or audiovisual item on the library shelves. Prince George's Community College Library uses Library of Congress call numbers.

A Computer Disk-Read Only Memory storage disk which holds information.

Books and materials which may be borrowed from the library. All circulating books on the second floor of the Library.

Counter where books and materials are checked out and returned.

Information that identifies an article or book or multimedia that usually includes author, title, volume, issue, date, journal title, page numbers. Additional information such as subject headings, type of article, and length of article may be included.

The most recent issues of magazines, journals, and newspapers that the library receives.

A collection of information stored in an electronic format and searchable by computer.

The name given to the Prince George's Community College Library's online catalog.


A list of words and their definitions, limited to a special area of knowledge.

The items owned by the library.

A service that allows students and faculty to have access to materials not available in the Library's own collection.

(1) A print source or database that identifies sources that are in magazines, journals, newspapers, books, multimedia, etc.
(2) An alphabetical list at the end of a book that lists subjects, names, and/or titles.

One publication of a magazine, journal, or newspaper.

A periodical such as Economic Review that publishes articles written by scholars, subject experts or professionals in a particular field.

The most important words in a topic that are searched when searching databases.

A periodical such as People Weekly that has popular articles written for the general reader.

A list of choices found in online tools such as databases and catalogs.

A piece of film, 4 inches by 6 inches in size with reduced pages of a document such as a periodical that can be read at a microfiche reader/printer.

A roll of film with reduced pages of a document such as a periodical that can be read at a microfilm reader/printer.

An Online Public Access Catalog that is computerized that contains books and other materials in such as GEORGE II in the Library.

A publication that is published at regular intervals such as magazines and journals.

The machine which is used to read or print the material that is on microfiche or microfilm.

Books that provide factual information and lead to other information resources.

A desk staffed by a librarian where you can ask questions on how to find information, do research, and use the Library.

A special collection of materials kept behind the Circulation Desk and available for short-term use.

A quantity of successive issues for a publication identified by a number.