bibliography, directory, nonbooks; magazines and newspapers, more nonbooks; verticle file.
A directory--gives information about people, organizations, or institutions. Names and addresses are listed. A telephone book is a directory.
Nonbook: magazines and newspapers. Because it takes time to put out a book, even a brand new one is yesterday's facts. For many kinds of information such as the height of a mountain, the spelling of a word, newness isn't too important. Such thing's aren't likely to change or change much for a long time. But for what's happening now, special kinds of materials are needed. These include magazines and newspapers.
A magazine comes out periodically, weekly, twice a month, monthly. So magizines are sometimes called periodicals. Every six months or so, a library puts the back issues of some magazines together and has them bound in book covers. This is called a volume.
A card in the catalog tells the name of a magazine, which volumes are in the library, and so on. But if someone wants an article on a certain subject, the card won't help. For that kind of information, there are special indexes. Of these, probably the best known is the 'Reader' Guide to Periodical Literature', which indexes articles of about 150 magazines. Like those magazines, 'Readers' Guide' itself is a periodical. So it comes in volumes, each volume covers one or two years, with the dates printed on the spine.
The catalog card for a newspaper, like the catalog card for a magazine, won't help find articles on a certain subject. To locate such newspaper articles, 'The New York Times Index' is very useful. It's a key to other newspapers, too, because most of them have pretty much the same news on the same day. Like the 'Reader' Guide', 'The New York Times Index' comes in many volumes, each covering one year. To save space, many libraries keep back volumes of the New York Times and other newspapers on microfilm.
More nonbooks: verticle file--every library has a place for clippings. Such things as newspaper articles on local people and places are worth cutting out and keeping. The same is true of special articles and picturs from magazines. Clippings are usually put in folders, alphabetically arranged by subject. The folders are kept in a deep-drawer cabinet called a verticle file. There are no catalog cards for individual clippings, but many catalogs have cross reference cards to the subjects in the file. The verticle file has pamphlets, too. These are paperbound booklets, each often dealing with one subject. Like newspapers and magazines, many pamphlets give fast, up-to-date facts on jobs, for instances too new to be in books. Information that's hard to get elsewhere often comes in pamphlet form. Some libraries have special shelves or boxes for pamphlets, where they are arranged by subject. There are indexes for pamphlets as well as for magazines. The Verticle File Index is widely known. Also helpful is the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. A verticle file may also include maps, charts, graphs, posters, and even sheet music. Some such items may be kept in a separate place in a picture file or map file, for example.
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