An annotated bibliography is especially useful to locate because it includes a brief summaries of books and articles on a topic that can help you determine if something is relevant. You may have an assignment to annotate a source. That means you would write a description of the reading. Information for a book usually includes the author, title, publisher, and date. The citation for an article in a magazine or journal includes the author, title of the article, title of the periodical, volume, pages, and date.
Bibliographies can be helpful because they gather and identify materials on a common theme.
Be wary of outdated bibliographies, however. Materials at the bindery are out of the library system and are not available to users. Materials are arranged on the shelves in call number order. A call number is given to an item on the basis of subject so that materials on a similar subject will be shelved together. Dewey Decimal, Library of Congress, and Superintendent of Documents are three of the major types of call numbers a library might use.