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A

Academic Libraries
Alexandrian Library
American Library Association and Censorship
Archives

B

Bibliometrics
Bookmobile

C

Canadian Library Association Statement on Intellectual Freedom
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre  
Canadian Reference Centre 
CINAHL
Corporate Funding for Public Libraries

D

Data mining
Digital Libraries
DIKW Pyramid
Documentary research
DynaMed

E

EconLit
Explora

F

Flipster
Freedom of Information Act

G

Genetics and mathematics
Geographic information systems and forensics
Geoinformatics
Georges Bataille
GOBI Library Solutions

H

Humanities Source

I

Information assurance (IA)
Information Content
Information ethics
Information literacy
Information overload
Information retrieval (IR)
Information security

J

JSTOR (digital library)

K

Knowledge organization (KO)

L

Librarian
Libraries and archives industry
Library and Resource Instruction
Library Bill of Rights
Library Card Sign-up Month
Library Collection Development and Graphic Novels
Library of Congress
Library Science
Library Technician

M

MAS Complete
MasterFILE Complete
Media Specialist
Medical Records Administrator
MEDLINE
Middle Search Plus
Molecular Configurations

N

National Library Week (NLW)
Network and Computer Systems Administrator
NoveList

P

Paule Marshall
Personal information management (PIM)
Personally identifiable information (PII)
Photocopying
Photocopying invented
Poetry and Short Story Reference Center  
Points of View Reference Center
Presidential Library (United States)
Primary source
Public library system in North America

R

Reading Cell Phone Bills
Reading Utility Bills
Right-to-know legislation

S

School Librarianship
School Library Month
Science Reference Center
Search engines
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Sociology Source
Stacks
Sunshine laws

T

Testing effect

U

Using Google Effectively