Library Word of the Week - Bibliography

Bibliography (may be called "works cited")

noun, plural bibliographies.

1.

a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship,subject, place of publication, or printer.

2.

a list of source materials that are used or consulted in the preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text.

3.

a branch of library science dealing with the history, physical description, comparison, and classification of books and other works.

Every paper you write, every PowerPoint you make, should have a bibliography at the end if you utlized other peoples' thoughts or words. You wouldn't want someone to use your paper that you worked so hard for without citing you, so don't do it to other people either.