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• An item printed solely as a means of advertising a product or service, but not an event (i.e., not to be used for performance-related flyers or posters such as theatre bills).

Use for: Photograph albums, Scrapbooks, Autograph albums

• Bound or loose-leaf sets of pages. Includes handmade albums and published volumes of blank pages designed for the addition of images or keepsakes.

Use for: Templates

• Forms that have been printed blank, which may or may not have been filled in; the document was typically meant to be returned to the publisher (e.g., subscription lists, petitions).

• Published non-periodical volumes in bound codex form, usually with 49 or more pages.

• Single-sheet notices or announcements printed on one or both sides, intended to be read unfolded.

• Enumerations of items arranged systematically with descriptive details. May have prices.

Use for: Diplomas, charters

Use for: Newspaper clippings; Cuttings

• Objects with physical evidence suggesting extraction from a larger entity (e.g., books, newspapers).

• Ephemeral materials such as flyers, program books, daily newsletters, or newspapers that are distributed at conferences. For published records of conferences, including abstracts, reports, and the papers presented, see [Conference papers and proceedings.]

Use for: Agreements; Covenants, Collective agreements; Deeds

• Communication by the exchange of letters.

• Handouts and other ephemeral materials used in coursework.

Use for: Court rulings; Legal opinions; Judgments

Use for: Daybooks; Journals; Logbooks

• A daily record, especially a personal record of events, experiences, and observations; a journal.

Use for: Telephone books; City directories; Telephone directories

Use for: Playscripts

• Narrower terms include both physical media and genre categories but are limited to those which use drawing in the sense of a specific medium rather than in the everyday sense of graphic representation.

• Transient everyday items, usually printed and on paper, that are manufactured for a specific limited use, then often discarded. Includes everyday items that are meant to be saved, at least for a while, such as KEEPSAKES and STOCK CERTIFICATES.

• A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author.

• Recordings of sounds or images made outside a controlled studio environment or professional performance venue that are generally unedited and typically made with portable equipment.

• Notes, often in books, kept by researchers or surveying parties while on site.

• Unbound volumes with fewer than five pages.

• Graphic delineations at a set scale, of all or part of the earth or another celestial sphere indicating the relative position of selected artificial and natural features.

Use for: Cinema, Films, Movies, Moving pictures.