Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Reference Books from Cuneiform to Computers Chapter 3 Encyclopedias Chapter 4 Commonplace Books to Books of Quotations Chapter 5 The Reference of Time: Almanacs, Calendars, Chronologies, Chronicles Chapter 6 Ready Reference Books: Handbooks and Manuals Chapter 7 Dictionaries Grammar and Rhetoric Chapter 8 Maps and Travel Guides Chapter 9 Biography Chapter 10 Bibliography, Serials, and Indexes Chapter 11 Government Documents Chapter 12 Epilogue Chapter 13 Chronology
William A. Katz is Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is editor of The Reference Librarian and The Acquisitions Librarian. He is also editor of Magazines for Libraries and has compiled a second edition of The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies, as well as the seventh edition of his Introduction to Reference Work.
Katz delves deeply into reference history...every page is filled
with facts that you can drop casually at the next cocktail party or
budget hearing...
*Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie*
Katz's way with words is apparent throughout...an illuminating and
readable book.
*CHOICE*
...a delight...this book should be read by all aspiring reference
librarians...a welcome addition to library literature and the
history of the book.
*Lisca*
The particular strength of this informative work is that it
assembles material from diverse sources into a well-integrated
study of the entire spectrum of reference materials. A thoroughly
readable and authoritative history enriched by Katz's eclectic
selections of comments, reflections and criticism from compilers
and readers of reference works.
*AB Bookman's Weekly*
I know of no such book as this: a history of reference sources in
general...a dip into just one page and I was hooked. What more
heady read for a reference librarian than a book about the origin
of the books of their trade, and how they came to be, and why...now
we have a history devoted to "our" books, our inheritance...with
some 400 pages of text, a 27-page index, and 956 bibliographical
and elaborative notes, Katz has done us a tremendous service...the
depth of knowledge is impressive...anyone doing historical and
literary research or interested in our intellectual history would
do well to use this.
*s*
...fascinating survey of reference titles...
*American Libraries*
Katz's book is an impressive brief history, and is also a pleasure
to read...
*The Library Association Record*
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