RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
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Subtitle
A secondary title, often used to expand or to limit the main title.
Text file
A word-processed document which includes only text and no formatting, tables
or images. A text file can be read by any word-processing package and is given
the file extension .TXT (for example, REPORT.TXT).
Thesaurus
A collection of keywords or descriptors (generally within a special field of
knowledge) which lists the keywords and displays their relationship. Similar to
a keywords list.
Title
The distinctive name of a book or other material. The proper title of printed
material is often different from the title that appears on the front cover, so it is
important to check the proper title page.
Title catalogue
A card catalogue of title cards arranged alphabetically.
Title page
A page that appears at the beginning of a book and that contains the most
complete bibliographic information, including the title, author’s name,
publisher and date of publication.
Transfer protocol
A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data across a computer
network.
URL (uniform resource locator)
The address of a page or document on the World Wide Web.
User group
A group of people who have a common interest and can be provided with
information as a group rather than individually.
Web
A shortened term for World Wide Web.
Web page
A document or file of information on the World Wide Web that can contain
text, pictures and sound. Web pages can be linked together by hypertext links.
Website
A number of web pages displayed by the same host computer.
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