Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-sized Libraries and Media Centers: 2005 Edition, Volume 25 - Hardcover

Hysell, Shannon Graff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591582881 ISBN 13: 9781591582885

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Essential for reference work and indispensable for collection development, this book helps you quickly identify the best, most affordable, and most appropriate new reference titles in any given field. The approximately 500 books reviewed in this 23rd annual edition have been selected from American Reference Books Annual (Libraries Unlimited, 2003) as the best works for smaller libraries. A must if your budget precludes ARBA, this time-saving tool also makes an excellent supplement.

RRB provides collection development librarians of small and medium-sized university, public, and school libraries with over 500 reviews of high-quality reference sources that were chosen from the latest edition of ARBA (2005). The reviews are chosen based on their broad appeal and their economical price, which will make them more suitable for smaller library collections.

About this title

Review

""[a] good guide to help assist in building a new collection or reviewing a current collection....To effectively use this publication, librarians should review it annually to make note of any new reference materials worth adding to their collections. As noted in the introduction to RRB, "The editors continue to strive and make RRB the most valuable acquisition tool a small library can have." This reviewer concurs that they have been successful in doing so.""-Collection Management

Synopsis

An annotated bibliography listing general reference works as well as those on social sciences, humanities, and science and technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591582881
• ISBN 13: 9781591582885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364