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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter VII Reference Work: Working Bibliographies, Notes, Debating 173. Reference work. ? In reference work of any kind, whether it be the looking up of a particular point or the exhaustive study of some subject, as in preparing a debate, it is necessary to be able to make use of the library as a whole. To do this, the student must keep in mind the principal resources of the library for such work which have already been described in detail, but are here summarized. 1. The card catalogue. This tells what the library has by an author, whether it has a particular title, and what books it has on a subject. 2. Reference books, including dictionaries, encyclo- - pedias and special reference books. These give short accounts of subjects. 3. Magazine indexes. These give clues to recent material and to many subjects not covered in reference and other books. 4. Miscellaneous aids including bibliographies mentioned in the card catalogue, in reference books, etc., and lists for reading and study compiled by the library.1 1 This list of miscellaneous aids is not exhaustive. There are, for instance, many special indexes such as those to U. S. government documents, which are less likely to be found in smaller libraries. In addition, the general arrangement and classification of books and the use of the index and other parts of a book should be understood, the former as an aid in finding one's way about, and the latter in order to make the use of any book easy and efficient. 174. Working bibliographies. ? Before beginning the study of a subject in which it is necessary to consult a number of books and magazine articles, it saves time and trouble to make out first a list of references for looking up. To this list can be added any other references met with in the cour...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217281140
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217281141
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Weight: 73 gr

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