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UMBC Archives: The Library Special Collections is the repository for the UMBC campus archives. Archival materials are sent by campus offices to the Special Collections staff who select and organize it. (see archives guideline 521).
Reference: Reference materials are those resources which are not intended to be read continuously from beginning to end but are consulted quickly by a relatively large number of users for relatively small and discrete pieces of information. Librarians determine what sources are placed in the Reference collection regardless of the allocation on which they were purchased. Reference materials include, but are not limited to: atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, guides to fields of research, indexes/abstracts, encyclopedias, handbooks, and compilations of basic facts and statistics.
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