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Formats

Find the available formats in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan 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.