Audience Classification - Paralegal: books for people with specialized training working under the supervision of a lawyer.

Audience Classification - Popular Work: works of a non-academic nature having little evidence of scholarly research and generally intended for the lay person.

Audience Classification - Student: books other than textbooks and casebooks used as study aids for law students; often in the form of legal outlines.

Bibliography: a book that compiles works published on a particular subject.

Casebook: a type of textbook chiefly comprised of case studies.

Collection of Essays: a collection of essays on varied topics written by many authors, often in honor of an individual (vs. a collection of chapters written by various authors on a single topic, which is assigned as a Monograph).

Continuation/Looseleaf: material that requires updating with releases and/or supplementation in loose-page or pocket-part format.

Dictionary: a book containing definitions of words, terms, and phrases, arranged alphabetically.

Encyclopedia: a work containing concise information on all subjects or limited to a special field or subject, arranged alphabetically.

Monograph (the “default” book type): a scholarly book or treatise on a single subject, class of subjects, or person. A Monograph includes a collection of chapters by various authors on a specific topic (vs. a Collection of Essays on varied topics written in honor of an individual, for example).

Periodical/Serial: a journal, law review, newspaper, or newsletter published on a regular basis and bearing chronological or numeric designations.

Proceedings of a Conference or Institute: works submitted to or produced as part of a conference or institute.

Reference Work: a general source of useful facts or information that does not fall into the more specific categories of dictionary, encyclopedia, or yearbook. Materials in this category may include directories, handbooks, desk books and state and government manuals.

Reprint: a reprinting of a previously published work.

Textbook: a book containing information on a subject used in the classroom by students and teachers.

Yearbook: a book published annually which chronicles the events or news of the year on a specific topic.