item that can be classified
or indexed in order that it may be
retrieved
This definition refers not only to written and printed
materials in paper or microform versions (for example,
books, journals, diagrams, maps), but also to non-printed
media, machine-readable and digitized records, Internet
and intranet resources, films, sound recordings, people
and organizations as knowledge resources, buildings,
sites, monuments, three-dimensional objects or realia;
and to collections of such items or parts of such items