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The reference shelf.(maintaining a library of referance books)
A FEW MINUTES AGO, on pure impulse, I jumped up from the desk and measured the aggregate length of the shelves occupied by my reference books: that is to say, shelving for dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauruses, dictionaries of quotations, concordances and "companions" to this, that and the other. (I don't know how you would classify Gordon & Gotch's Australasian Newspaper Directory for 1888, but you'd be surprised how often this worn little brown book can supply an answer.)
The steel tape-measure gave its reply to my unexpected question: "About thirty-six feet". My response was: "Thirty-six feet of treasures".
Though I step across the few paces of ...
- American Reference Books Annual 2008 ed.; v.39.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2008 700+ words
9781591586913 American reference books annual 2008 ed.; v.39. Ed. by Shannon Graff Hysell...cited in Book for College Libraries, 3d ed., Guide to Reference Books, Wilson's Senior High School Library Catalog and Walford...
- Recommended Reference Books: For Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Media...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
1591583802 Recommended reference books; for small and medium-sized libraries and media centers...reviews from the current edition of the larger volume American Reference Books Annual, some drawn from journals such as Booklist, Choice...
- American Reference Books Annual 2005 ed., vol. 37.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
1591583799 American reference books annual 2005 ed.; v.37. Ed. by Shannon Graff Hysell...are cited in Book for College Libraries, 3d ed., Guide to Reference Books, Wilson's Senior High School Library Catalog and Walford...
- CD-ROM PUTS SPARK INTO REFERENCE BOOKS.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) March 16, 1996 700+ words
...prehistoric. Today's schoolkids get their reference from ROM. Reference books on CD-ROM have proved to be one of the strongest reasons...now and then. Microsoft is one of the oldest producers of reference books on disk, and the Microsoft CD-ROM library just gets better...
- Congressional Quarterly and New York Times to publish reference books for...
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books June 12, 2007 700+ words
...agreement to create a new book imprint and begin publishing reference books for the library markets. According to the companies, the...development efforts and will comprise a series of document-based reference books created for high school, college and public libraries...
- REFERENCE BOOKS
- Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News Anonymous November 13, 2009 700+ words
You say you want a revolution? Well, when it comes to reference books there seems to be the faintest hint that there could be one afoot. Two recent titles in particular come to mind: the wildly entertaining...
- GALE AND NETLIBRARY (OCLC) WILL PUT REFERENCE BOOKS ONLINE.(Online Computer...
- Newspaper article from: Online Libraries & Microcomputers November 1, 2002 700+ words
...Corporation) and netLibrary (a division of OCLC) announced a cooperative agreement in which many of the classic Gale reference books has been put online through netLibrary. Through an alliance with netLibrary, Gale's classic reference works are available...
- Words you can work with: this is the way reference books would have been...
- Magazine article from: British Plastics & Rubber Maier, Clive January 1, 2006 700+ words
...material that can be manipulated and analysed. Now you can work with data, instead of just looking at it. This is the way reference books would have been written in the first place, if print technology had allowed it. This process of 'Knovelizing' has been...
Source: HighBeam Research, The reference shelf.(maintaining a library of referance books)