The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources - Softcover

Rogers, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563081687 ISBN 13: 9781563081682

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Updated and expanded to embrace developments in the electronic environment and new emphases on multicultural and female influences and accomplishments, this text offers a reliable guide to humanities information sources published through summer 1994. More comprehensive than previous editions, it includes approximately 1,250 main entries (the last edition contained 973), with increases equally proportioned in all sections. In addition, it has many more coentries and minor entries described within the annotations of major entries. Chapters cover general humanities, philosophy, religion, visual arts, performing arts, and language and literature. For each area there is one chapter on sources and another on access. Designed for teachers and students in schools of library and information science, previous editions of this book have been widely adopted as a text in library schools. It is also valuable to reference librarians, collection development officers in libraries, humanities scholars, and others wi

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About the Author

RON BLAZEK is Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

ELIZABETH AVERSA is Professor and Director, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563081687
• ISBN 13: 9781563081682
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 504