• Any audio recording regardless of form.

• Used and unused postcards

Use for: Architectural plans, technical drawings, blueprints

• Architectural plans, technical drawings, blueprints

• Any moving image

• Graphic delineations at a set scale, of all or part of the earth or another celestial sphere indicating the relative position of selected artificial and natural features.

Use for: Daybooks; Journals; Logbooks; Diaries; notebooks; commonplace books; school books; recipe books; field notes ; idea books

• Personal handwritten material not intended for publication.

Use for: Deeds, indentures, wills, probate documents

• Graphic material created as a result of early or modern photographic processes including print or digital photographs, negatives, mounted or lantern slides, and still pictures created using alternative methods such as cyanotype, collodion, daguerreotype or tintype plates and negatives.

Use for: Programmes, leaflets, receipts, menus, playbills, pamphlets, flyers, greeting cards, business cards, invitations, coupons, tickets

• Transient everyday items, usually printed and on paper, that are manufactured for a specific limited use, then often discarded. Includes everyday items that are meant to be saved, at least for a while, such as keepsakes and stock certificates.

• Communication through the exchange of letters.

• Books, periodicals, zines, maps, ephemera and other printed material held by Special Collections & Collections that has been catalogued in University of Waterloo Libraries catalogue (Omni)

Use for: Prints, paintings, drawings, illustrations, posters, mixed media, cartoons, comics, sketchbooks

Use for: Photograph albums, Scrapbooks, Autograph albums

• Bound or loose-leaf sets of pages. Includes handmade albums and published volumes of blank pages designed for the addition of images or keepsakes.