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Find the available formats in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, Tipasa, or Resource Sharing for Groups and see examples of each.

These formats are available:

Note: Not all formats are available for all items.

Format	Examples
Archival Material	Materials in two or more forms that are usually related by virtue of their having been accumulated by or about a person or body. This category includes comprehensive archives and manuscript collections of mixed forms of materials, such as text, photographs, and sound recordings.
Article	Text that is part of a larger item such as conference papers, chapters, or articles.
Audiobook	Books for use on audio devices. Includes CD, eAudiobook, LP, and cassette.
Book	Books, pamphlets, technical reports, typescripts, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, and other written works. Includes braille, continually updated resource, eBook, large print, microform, and thesis/dissertation.
Computer File	Items in the following classes of electronic resources: computer software (including programs, games, images, graphics, sounds, and fonts), numeric data, computer-oriented multimedia, interactive multimedia, and computer-oriented documents.
Game	Items or sets of items designed for play according to prescribed rules and intended for recreation or instruction. Includes video games, puzzles, and simulations.
Image	A physical likeness or representation in either print or electronic format.
Interactive Multimedia	A multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together.
Internet Resource	Websites with online documents, graphics, systems, or services. Includes downloadable images.
Journal/Magazine	Serial publications such as periodicals, annuals, journals, memoirs, proceedings, monographs, eJournals, or eMagazines.
Kit	A mixture of various components issues as a unit and intended primarily for instructional purposes. No one component is identifiable as the predominant component of the item. Examples are: packages of assorted materials, such as a set of K-12 social studies curriculum material (books, workbooks, guides, activities, etc.), or packages of educational test materials (tests, answer sheets, scoring guides, score charts, interpretative manuals, etc.).
Map	Maps, map manuscripts, globes, atlases, aeronautical charts, navigational charts, celestial charts, remote-sensing images, computer-generated maps, eMaps, and other cartographic material.
Music	Forms of music such as CD, eMusic, LP, or cassette.
Musical Score	Music materials, including downloadable musical scores, full score, choirs score, close score, condensed score, miniature score, part, music manuscript, books of musical studies, and exercises.
Newspaper	Serial newspaper publications. Includes eNewspaper.
Object	Physical item, either tangible or visible.
Toy	Material objects for children or others to play with, often an imitation of some familiar object (e.g., a plaything or something contrived for amusement rather than for practical use). Use for puppets.
Video	Includes Blu ray, eVideo, DVD, Film, and VHS.
Visual Material	Items in the following classes: Motion pictures, video recordings, graphic materials, three-dimensional artifacts, and downloadable visual material.