A collection or grouping that encompasses a wide range of areas in the arts and literature, including specific methods and styles used in creating art, detailed accounts of the lives and works of individuals in scientific fields, the practice or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface, comprehensive life histories and works of artists, personal narratives and life stories of notable individuals, and written or printed works consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.