Documentary
Sources of Information
Edited
by Asheesh Kamal
LIS
Cafe Website, 2022
All
sources in the form of documents are documentary sources. The connotation of
the term ‘document’ has undergone a sea change in recent years and now includes
among other books, periodicals, manuscripts, videotapes, computer files and
databases. A selective list of documentary sources is given below:
Books
• Treatises
• Monographs
• Textbooks
Reference
books
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks
• Manuals
• Data books
• Catalogues
• Bibliographies
• Directories
• Yearbooks
• Almanacs
• Biographical dictionaries
• Atlases
• Gazetteers
• Guidebooks
• Historical information sources
Manuscripts
Periodicals
Patents
Standards
Theses
Conference
documents
Souvenirs
Festschriften
Technical
reports
Administrative
reports
Trip
reports
Articles
(popular, technical, research, preprints, reprints)
Diaries
Letters
Office
files
CD-ROM
recordings
Video
recordings
Databases
Computer
files
Laboratory
notebooks
Maps
Globes,
etc.
Reference:
1.
Wikipedia
2.
IGNOU Study Materials
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