Library Buzzwords

Abstract	Summary of an article or book.
AIB	The Art Institute of Boston, located at 700 Beacon Street, Boston.
Ask-A-Librarian	Information service provided by Lesley Reference Librarians via phone, IM, email, and in person 360 days a year. The service is primarily for current Lesley students, faculty, and staff. Questions from other people will be answered if feasible.
Call Numbers	Each item in the library has a unique call number, including both letters and numbers. These numbers come from the Library of Congress Classification System. They enable materials on the same subject to be shelved together.
CashLynx	A prepaid spending account on your Lesley Card offering a safe and convenient way to make purchases on and off-campus.
Catalog	An index of materials in a specific library or libraries, now usually on computers rather than cards. The Lesley University Library online catalog is called the FLO Catalog.
Citation	Information that precisely identifies a book or an article; includes title, author, page, date, and publication information. For guides to formatting citations in your paper, check out the MLA or APA citation formats guides.
Consortium Plural: consortia	A group of libraries working together to purchase materials and share them with their users, often through a shared catalog. Lesley University belongs to the FLO and FLC consortia.
Database	Computerized information that may be searched by keyword, subject, author, or title. Databases index articles, books, documents, and/or full-text articles. Databases may be general, indexing a wide range of subjects, or subject-specific, focusing on one subject area.
Ebook	Full text books that are available online through Library databases such as ebrary, NetLibrary and ACLS Humanities E-Books. Search for ebooks in the FLO Catalog.
FLO Catalog	The online library catalog for Lesley University and the 9 libraries of the Fenway Libraries Online consortium. The FLO Catalog contains: books, videos, teaching resources, tests, and journals in the library collections. For individual articles, see databases.
Full Text (FT)	Designates links for which all of the content is available online.
ILL	Interlibary Loan is a service for obtaining books and articles from another library that aren’t available as full text in our databases; may take two to four weeks.
IM	Instant message refers to real-time text –based communication over the Internet; see Ask-A-Librarian for Lesley University Library IM services.
Journal	A periodical publication with articles written by professors, scholars and experts.
JUV	Short for Juvenile; the JUV Room is located on the lower level of the Sherrill Library and houses the children’s literature collection.
Keyword Search	Searching a topic using your own words.
Kresge	Kresge or the Kresge Center refers to the Lesley University Library’s Media Resources Center, located on the third floor of University Hall.
Kurzweil	Displays printed or electronic text on the computer screen; text can be spoken by a speech synthesizer or read by the user on the computer screen. The library has two Kurzweil 3000 Professional stations. One is located in the Kresge Media Resources Center and the second is located at the AIB Library.
Lesley Card	Your Lesley ID which uses CashLynx to pay for photocopies, overdue fines, color printing, and library supplies (transparencies, laminating, DVDs, etc.). For more information, go to www.lesleycard.com
LibGuide	Subject based research guides created by Library staff to bring together resources and services available through the Library.
MyAccount	Your online library account in the FLO catalog that allows you to check on due dates for circulated materials and request books from FLO member libraries.
MyLibrary	A tab in myLesley that gives you access to all of the Library’s resources and services (limited to Lesley University community only).
New & Noteworthy	A collection of selected recently-acquired books available for circulation, located in the Atrium of Sherrill Library. For a complete list of all new titles, please see our New Titles List.
Peer Reviewed Journal	Journal that publishes articles selected by scholars and other experts in the field, often through an editorial board.
Periodical	Newspaper, magazine or journal that is published on a regular basis, once a day, week, month, year, etc.
Reserves	Faculty often place articles or books "on reserve" for students to check out for brief time periods from the circulation desk at the library. This enables all students to have access to the same item for a class assignment. Some material is available electronically through the FLO Catalog.
Searchpath tutorial	This library tutorial was created to give Lesley students a good foundation in academic library research. Six brief self-paced modules introduce peer-reviewed journals, narrowing a topic, keyword searching, databases and catalogs, and how to prevent plagiarism. Graphics were created by a Lesley alum!
Stacks	Stacks are the shelves where library books are stored. Students are invited to go into the stacks to find books for themselves.
Subject Search	In the FLO catalog, a subject search uses Library of Congress Subject Headings to find an item. Subject headings are listed in the Full Record for each item in the catalog.
TRC	The Teaching Resources Collection, located on the lower level of Sherrill Library; primarily of K-9 instructional materials
URL	Uniform Resource Locator; the unique address of a page on the World Wide Web. The URL for the Library Web site is http://www.lesley.edu/library/.
VC	The Virtual Catalog allows you to search for and request more than seven million items at over 300 libraries across Massachusetts in addition to what you can find in the FLO catalog.