This book, first published in 1987, provides important information on reference publishing, including valuable guidelines on evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here are all written by leading experts in the field.
1. Publishing, Reviews and the Reference Process Bill Katz
2. Evaluation
Reference Books in Theory and Practice Norman Stevens
3. The Reference
Reviewer's Responsibilities James Rettig
4. How to Be a Book Critic: A Guide
for Librarians Richard Grefrath
5. Dear Encyclopedia Critic Ken Kister
6.
Evaluation of Reference Sources Published or to Be Published Jovian Lang
7.
Reference Book Reviewing Tools: How Well Do They Do the Job? James H.
Sweetland
8. Book Reviewing in Sociology Sharon Quist
9. Publication of
Reference Tools for Special Collections Daniel Traister
10. New Reference
Sources on Women: An Analysis and Proposal Helen B. Josephine and Deborah K.
Blouin
11. Communication Between Publishers and Librarians: Cooperation or
Conflict? Martin Grayson and Carol Stuckhardt
12. The Buzz Industry and the
Book Industry Fred Ruffner
13. On the Writing of Reference Books: Real and
Ideal; In Which the Author Discourses on Motivation, Process, Publication,
Reviews and Rewards Marda Woodbury
14. Reference Books From a Scholarly
Publisher Marilyn Brownstein, Nora Kisch and Mary S. Ive
15. From Book Idea
to Contract: Writing Reference and Professional Books Pat Schuman
16. Who Are
the Whos: The Uses of Bibliographical Reference Sources for Social Demography
Adele Hast
17. Small Press Reference Books Kay Ann Cassell
18. Major Business
Reference Works Thomas P. Slavens
19. Publishing Reference Works in the
Electronic Age: Information Delivery Through Multiple Channels Phyllis B.
Steckler
20. Online Searching: Reference Librarians and Reference Publishers
Meet the Challenge Together Jon Clayborne
21. Old Books: New Technologies
Davie Biesel
22. The Medium Must Match the Message Kathy Niemeier
23. Ready
Reference Using Online Databases Barbara E. Anderson
24. The Reference
Services From Mead Data Central: Combining Index Terms and Free Text
Searching for Saturation Retrieval Sharon K. Peake
25. Optical Disk: The
Electronic Library Arrives Sandra Sinsel Leach
26. Online Services at the
Reference Desk: New Technologies vs. Old Problems Mary Boulanger
27. Keeping
the Lid On: Approaches to the Control of Costs in Reference Book Purchasing
in an Academic Library Heather S. Miller
28. Reference Publishing and
Changing Distribution Techniques Sharon C. Bonk
29. The Effect of Publishing
Policies on Reference Service in the Large Academic Library Constance A.
Fairchild
30. What is Reference Publishing? A Dialogue Robert Franklin
Bill Katz, Robin Kinder
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