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When embarking on an educational course, just studying the curriculum is not enough; especially to gain a better understanding of the study material it is imperative to read more than just your course books, more so for professional courses. The process of researching and studying starts right from school. Projects are handed out to students so that they learn more about a particular topic and in order to do that, they have to find out more by referring to other books and sources to complete the given topic. The books are usually available at the library and one can find them under reference and education. Now reference books are those books that one can refer to for their course work or project work at the library itself. Such books are usually not given out to be taken back home. These books are either too large or too precious to be given on loan and thus stay in the library, also as it is used for reference, many other people may also need it for their work and therefore large tables are laid out at the library for one to sit and write. Some of the books that fall under reference are thesaurus, encyclopedia and dictionary to name a few. Also a collection of articles relating to a particular topic bound in one book is also called reference book.
A book when published by an author will show at the back; a bibliography of the sources and books they had referred to when writing this one. Today with everything going digital and online, libraries too have made books available in PDF format for people to access it from their computers. Reference and education books too are digitalized and made available to members of the library or for all at their own discretion. This way the actual reference books can be maintained properly. Some of the books are limited editions and so are kept away as they can not be replaced if damaged. Such books are then made available through an electronic or machine readable format. At the library they can be viewed on film or if digitized a copy may be given out then to be read on your laptop or iPad or any other device that can read the format.
It is always good to do research for your course work and projects, as the extra effort put in not only gets you extra points, you also end up learning something new.