bibliographers
Literature list makers
Bibliographers are people who compile bibliographies—systematic lists of books, articles, or other written works on a particular subject or by a particular author.
The work ranges from scholarly documentation The bibliographers traced every edition of the novel to the study of books as physical objects, examining printing methods, paper, and binding.
Some bibliographers specialize in rare books or manuscript authentication.
Those who systematically list
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- librariansCollection curators at lending institutions
- researchersThose who study systematically
- scholarsExperts in a field
indexers · curators · antiquarians · historians · academicians · enumerators · compilers · systematizers
Acknowledged source mentions
- referencesSources cited for verification
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
collation · description · enumeration · attribution · provenance · pagination · signatures · watermarks
Uncommon valuable printed works
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- first editionsOriginal printing runs
- archivesStored historical documents
special collections · ephemera · broadsides · pamphlets · periodicals · codices · folios · quartos
Organized electronic information collections
- catalogsComprehensive itemized lists
- concordancesWord occurrence listings
- checklistsItemized task records
- indicesOrganized lists for lookup
catalogers
Those who systematically list
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- librariansCollection curators at lending institutions
- researchersThose who study systematically
scholars · indexers · curators · antiquarians · historians · academicians · enumerators · compilers · systematizers · describers
citations
Acknowledged source mentions
- referencesSources cited for verification
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
- catalogingSystematic organization into records
classification · collation · description · enumeration · attribution · provenance · pagination · signatures · watermarks · typography
rare books
Uncommon valuable printed works
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- first editionsOriginal printing runs
archives · special collections · ephemera · broadsides · pamphlets · periodicals · codices · folios · quartos · private libraries
databases
Organized electronic information collections
- catalogsComprehensive itemized lists
- concordancesWord occurrence listings
- checklistsItemized task records
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- bibliographycitations, source citations, works cited, citation style, references
- library workerslibrarians, library staff, library assistants, branch managers, catalogers
- book historybookbinding, colophon, edition, folio, frontispiece
- Medieval Scholarsscholastic, schoolman, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham