The location of various classes of reference books should be pointed out, the differences between a dictionary and an encyclopaedia explained, and the various types of both commented upon.
The librarian should estimate the average cost of his books per volume and, except in the case of reference books, should not go too far beyond this average cost.
One of the most important and useful books with which the reference assistant should become acquainted is Miss Kroeger's "Guide to the study and use of reference books," (A.
Reference books--meaning ready reference books--may be generally divided into two great classes: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.
Reference Books on this Period will be found in the Classified List of Books in the Appendix.
As shown in the use of different texts and of reference books.
The absurd and most inconvenient practice of publishing novels, reference books, and indeed any kind of work, with uncut leaves, is one which causes more waste of time and irritation than almost anything else in connexion with books.
Branch libraries do not, as a rule, have reference rooms, although accommodation for a collection of quick-reference books is necessary, and in many branch libraries newspaper and magazine rooms are combined.
I am of course aware that the Guide to Reference Books originally written by Alice Kroeger has passed through many editions and has had two subsequent editors.
If the shipment is a miscellaneous one of periodicals, reference books, fiction and juvenile books it may be necessary to state on the binding slips how each book is to be bound.
As liberal purchases as possible should be made in reference books--always selecting the latest and freshest to start on.
The ninth grade lesson is on reference books, and is conducted largely by means of questioning.
A collection of reference books must be placed back at the Capitol, with suitable apparatus, to bring the library once more into touch with Congress and enable it to render the service to Congress which is its first duty.
A collection of reference books adapted to the young is sometimes added to the books which circulate.
Libraries for schoolrooms, to be composed of reference books, books for supplementary reading, class duplicates, and professional books for teachers, should be provided for in the public school law.
Take special pains to show children the use of indexes, and indeed of all sorts of reference books; they will soon be familiar with them and handle them like lifelong students.
Where it is possible to duplicate the simple and more common reference books in the juvenile department, these should form a fourth class.
An example of this mistake is the attempt to acquaint the student with very many reference books, or go deeply into the subject of classification.
It has been necessary to pursue this course as we have but one large room for stacks, reference books, reading tables, children's department and charging desk.
The French, too, are excellent at reference books, but the inferior way in which they are printed makes them tiresome to refer to.
And here come the value and use of reference books--the working of one book in connexion with another--and applying your own intelligence to both.
From Washington comes the testimony that the organization of the league has increased the demand for drama books; from Los Angeles came a large order for special dramas and reference books needed by our members.
Reprints=--During the past year the following publications have been reprinted: Guide to reference books, by Alice B.
Every rural school should have a carefully selected library, suited to its needs, including a sufficient number of reference books.
Within the building there is frequently no adequate equipment in the way of apparatus, supplementary reading, or reference books of any kind.
Chemists have, indeed, attempted to reproduce the phenomenon, yet the chemical explanations of it that have appeared in reference books down to a recent date are quite untenable.
Contrary to popular belief and to statements sometimes found in reference books, it is almost never possible to distinguish all seven of the spectral colors in a rainbow; four or five is the usual limit.
Guide to the study and use of reference books, by Alice B.
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