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In the field of Library And Information Science the term ''ephemera'' is also used to describe the class of published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use. This classification then excludes simple letters and photographs with no printing on them, which are considered as Manuscript s or Typescript s. It includes: postcards, event-oriented posters, transportation and show tickets, baggage stickers, stock certificates, motor vehicle licensing forms, business cards, printed wedding invitations, trade cards, and other similar printed materials. An academic or a National Library often has a rare book department tasked, in part, with the acquisition and organisation of such ephemera, in order to preserve them as witnesses of local or national History . In some places Museum s are given this responsibility, or decide to assume it. Libaries must carefully develop criteria to decide what ephemera to acquire and save. ''Compare to the related term, Grey Literature .'' REFERENCES
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