Fundamentals of Reference

2 REFERENCE SOURCES more choices (and formats) at our disposal. While anyone can “google” a query and find some kind of answer, ...

Reference Sources 3 ALA’s Booklist, in which reviews are written by members of the Bulletin’s editorial board as well as by cont ...

4 REFERENCE SOURCES editors include subject experts representing a wide variety of academic and public libraries. Their concise ...

5 one encyclopedias It’s the E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A. Just look inside this book and you will see, everything from “A” clear dow ...

6 REFERENCE SOURCES a decade ago, publishers are still producing them, often along with an online version. Among general encyclo ...

Encyclopedias 7 and yearbooks and other special products. These considerations are useful not only in purchasing an encyclopedia ...

8 REFERENCE SOURCES in BooksInPrint.com or any online library catalog and look at the results. Spe- cialized encyclopedias may b ...

Encyclopedias 9 and history, biographies of the Librarians of Congress and more in a single-volume encyclopedia on the largest l ...

10 REFERENCE SOURCES notes The chapter epigraph is from Lorraine Santoli, The Official Mickey Mouse Club Book (New York: Hyperio ...

11 two websites Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by packrats and vandalized nightly. —Roger ...

12 REFERENCE SOURCES Quality, depth, and usefulness of content Ready reference Uniqueness of content Currency of content Author ...

Websites 13 was “to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected websites, serving Cal ...

14 REFERENCE SOURCES Now, as ipl2: Information You Can Trust, the IPL and the LII have been combined to form a website offering ...

Websites 15 use a rating system which will score each product based on four ele- ments: content, searchability, price, and contr ...

http://www.ebook3000.com ...

17 three dictionaries I’ve been in Who’s Who, and I know what’s what, but it’ll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. —M ...

18 REFERENCE SOURCES Period or scholarly specialized titles that focus on a given time period or place, such as a dictionary of ...

Dictionaries 19 this desk dictionary offers more than 200,000 entries, and among its special features are full-color illustratio ...

20 REFERENCE SOURCES other dictionaries Finally, here are some examples of Katz’s “other” category of dictionaries. A visual dic ...

Dictionaries 21 Quotations are another frequently asked-about topic, and, I must admit, my favorite type of reference question. ...