• censorship

    political process controlling movement of information, either public or private, and suppressing it if necessary
  • censorship mark

    in Germany, a label on publications released for dissemination by military censors during the First World War
  • censorship stamp

    stamp on postal items that have been inspected by a state or military authority
  • census

    index of all examples of a work, an author, a printer or a publisher that can be found in one library or collection
  • central catalogue

    a catalogue that documents the collections of several libraries, in particular for interlibrary loans
  • chained book (liber catenatus)

    a book secured in a library by means of an iron chain attached to a bookrest so as to prevent unauthorised removal or theft
  • chalcographic title page

    an illustrated copper title page created using chalcography
  • chancellor

    the head or director of a chancery or (high-level) authority
  • character

    individual element of a writing system
  • character spacing

    spacing between individual characters