Genre / Form Searches of the ASU Library Catalog

Iambic poetry
Poems that consist of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.

ʻĪd al-Fiṭr fiction

Illustrated works
Works that consist entirely or largely of images or that include images that explain, augment, or embellish text or other content.

Impromptus (Music)

Improvisations (Music)
Musical performances or transcriptions of musical performances that consist wholly or primarily of improvised musical content.

In nomines (Music)
Chamber music based on the Sarum antiphon Gloria tibi Trinitas.

Incidental music
Music performed as part of a predominantly spoken-word drama (e.g., a play) without being an integral part of it.

Independent films

Index maps

Indexes
Works consisting wholly or chiefly of systematic guides to the content of resources, usually presented as alphabetical lists of names, places, subjects, etc., with references to their locations in the resources.

Industrial films

Industrial music
Popular music that arose in the 1970s and contains elements of punk rock, electronic music, and machinery sounds.

Informational works
Works whose main purpose is to record and convey factual information.

Installation views (Exhibition documentation)
Visual records of permanent or temporary art installations.

Instructional and educational works
Works whose main purpose is to convey knowledge, attitudes, and/or skills.

Instructional comics
Comics that use a structured format to teach or train the reader. For comics that are intended to impart knowledge and information, including those for classroom use, see Educational comics.

Instructional films
Films that use a structured format to teach or train the audience. For films that are intended to impart knowledge and information, including those for classroom viewing, see Educational films.

Instructional television programs
Television programs that use a structured format to teach or train the audience. For television programs that are intended to impart knowledge and information see Educational television programs.

Instrumental settings
Arrangements of vocal music for one or more instruments without voice.

Intabulations

Intaglio prints
Prints made from ink that is held in areas of the plate or block that have been cut or etched away.

Intergovernmental agreements
Agreements between two or more jurisdictions below the national level, or between a national government and one or more jurisdictions that are not national governments.

Intermezzos (Instrumental music)
Short, instrumental musical works that are performed independently of other works. For music performed between parts of other works, see Interludes (Music).

Internet videos

Interviews

Introits (Music)

Itineraries

Jataka stories
Paraphrases of Jātaka texts in story form.

Jazz

Jazz-rock (Music)

Jigs (Dance music)
Stage entertainments popular in England and Continental Europe during the 16th-18th centuries that combined drama, music, and dance. For the dance genre popular in the British Isles from the 16th century onward, see Jigs (Dance music).

Job descriptions

Jotas (Music)

Journalism films
Fictional films that feature reporters and newsgathering.

Judicial statistics

Jukebox musicals
Musicals that use previously released popular songs as their scores.

Jury instructions

Juvenile delinquency films

Kagok

Karaoke
Recordings of popular songs without the main vocal parts, intended to be sung along with for recreational or competitive purposes. For accompaniments issued without the principal part or parts, or that have been provided for music that is normally monophonic, see Recorded accompaniments.

Kasa
Lengthy Korean poems whose lines are each broken by pauses into two phrases which create a parallel structure.

Khayāl

Laboratory manuals

Laments
Poems that express a deep regret or sorrow for the loss of a person or position. For serious, formal lyric poems that reflect on a solemn subject, generally someone's death, see Elegies (Poetry).

Ländler (Music)

Latin jazz

Latin pop

Laudatory poetry
Poems that praise a person, place, event, or thing. For poems that generally appear in the preliminaries of books and praise the author and/or work see Commendatory poetry.

Laude

Lauds (Music)

Law commentaries
Works that include systematic, article-by-article or section-by-section interpretation, analysis, and explanation of a legal document or collection of legal documents.

Law digests
Systematically arranged compilations of brief summaries of statutes, regulations, court decisions, and administrative decisions.

Law for laypersons

Law materials

Law reviews
Scholarly periodical publications that emanate from law schools.

Lead sheets

Lectures

Legal drama (Literature)
Plays that feature the practice of law.

Legal fiction (Literature)
Fiction that features the practice of law.

Legal films
Fiction or nonfiction films that feature the interaction of lawyers, prosecutors, clients, witnesses, and judges.

Legal forms

Legal instruments

Legal maxims
Compiled statements of established principles of law.

Legal memorandums
Documents discussing in detail the legal issues of a case.

Legal petitions
Formal written requests presented to a court, a legislative body, or a sovereign.

Legal television programs
Fiction or nonfiction television programs that feature the interaction of lawyers, prosecutors, clients, witnesses, and judges.

Legends
Traditional narratives that are popularly regarded as historical and that generally feature famous or heroic people.

Legislative bills
Drafts of proposed legislation considered by a legislature before enactment.

Legislative hearings

Legislative histories
Compilations of texts (committee hearings, reports, debates, etc.) that document the process of enacting a particular law or a group of laws.

Legislative materials

Lenten music
Music that is traditionally associated with Lent.

Lesbian comics
Comics about the lesbian experience.

Lesbian fiction
Fiction about the lesbian experience.

Lesbian films
Films about the lesbian experience.

Lesbian poetry
Poetry about the lesbian experience.

Lesson plans

Library catalogs
Systematically arranged descriptions of materials held by libraries, regardless of catalog format (e.g., card catalogs, book catalogs).

Librettos

Lift-the-flap books

Linguistic atlases

Linked stories
Collections of stand-alone short stories that interrelate and create a larger whole.

Linocuts
Prints made from a design cut into linoleum-faced blocks.

Litanies

Litanies (Music)

Literary cookbooks
Cookbooks whose recipes are inspired by or derived from literary sources, often containing excerpts from these sources.

Literary criticism
Works that evaluate, study, and discuss literature of any genre.

Literary readings

Literature

Lithographs
Prints made using a process in which a design is deposited onto a stone or plate with a greasy substance that will accept ink.

Liturgical books
Prescribed forms of religious worship and ritual.

Liturgical drama
Medieval musical dramas performed during Roman Catholic liturgies.

Live sound recordings
Sound recordings containing concerts, theatrical performances, or other cultural events typically performed in front of an audience and transmitted, broadcast, or recorded as they occur.

Live television programs

Live-action/animation films
Films that feature interaction between live-action and animated elements.

Local histories

Logic puzzles

Loose-leaf services
Legal publications that bring together primary and secondary materials pertaining to a particular field or topic, and that are issued in binders and updated with replacement pages, sequential newsletters, or both.

Lounge music

Love poetry

Love songs

Low budget films

Lullabies (Songs)

Lundus

Lyric poetry
Songlike poetry that is short, subjective, and personal in subject matter.