Table of contents

A list of parts contained within a book or periodical, such as chapter titles and periodical articles, with references by page number or other location symbol to the place they begin and in the sequence in which they appear. (ALA Glossary)

Tertiary sources

Reference works that identify, point out, summarize, abstract, or repackage the information provided in primaryand secondary sources. Examples include dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc. (Oxford Guide to Library Research, 1998)

Thesaurus

A list of all the subject headings or descriptors used in a particular database, catalog, or index. The thesaurus for the online catalog is the Library of Congress Subject Headings. See also controlled vocabulary.

Thesis

1.            the main idea or argument of a paper.

2.            a document prepared as a condition for the award of a degree or diploma. For example, a Masters thesis.

Truncation

In database searching, the addition of a special symbol (*, #, ?, etc.) to the root of a word to match any record in a database that begins with the letters to the left of the symbol. For example in the online catalog, typing forest?as an expert keyword search would find records containing the words forest, forestry, forests, forested, etc.

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