Introduction to Reference Work, Vol. 2: Reference Services and Reference Processes

Business & Money

Bill Katz

Job Hunting & Careers

McGraw=Hill

This best-selling text acquaints students, practicing librarians, and users of libraries with the basic reference and information sources in public and academic libraries. With the emergence of the information highway, this completely updated and rewritten Seventh Edition focuses primarily on electronic formats, their problems, and solutions.

Introduction to Reference Work, Vol. 2: Reference Services and Reference Processes, 7th Edition

McGraw-Hill Companies

From cave paintings to computers, this overview of the history of books and communication is written for the layperson and student. It provides clear information on how books shaped and reflected major social, political, and literary developments. As a general guide, it moves from the earliest writing in the Middle East and Egypt to Greece, Rome, and early Christian contributions to book production and literacy. Major sections discuss publishing during the Middle Ages and how the invention of printing drastically changed and improved the distribution of knowledge. Later chapters take the reader from the age of encyclopedias in the seventeenth century to the great technological advances of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For those who wish to pursue specific areas in the history of the book in greater detail, there are three parts devoted to additional reading with descriptive, critical annotations: general histories and bibliographies, scribes and printers, and printing to the modern period. Extensive notes and documentation will lead to additional sources.

Dahl's History of the Book

History

Svend Dahl

Americas

Scarecrow Press

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