Reference Services Review: Volume 1 Issue 4

Reference book reviewing

Louis Shores

Before January 1938, no major journal in any of the three disciplines most concerned—English, Education, Library—had a department regularly devoted to Reference Book Review. Only…

Recent reference books

Frances Neel Cheney

Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are…

New and forthcoming reference books from Gale Research company

Current issues of Publishers' Weekly are reporting serious shortages of paper, binders board, cloth, and other essential book manufacturing materials. Let us assure you these…

British reference books

Anthony P. Harvey

This column inaugurates a new facet of the coverage of reference materials contained in RSR: the inclusion of sections devoted to reviews of useful reference books published…

Government reference publications

Jimmie Hoover

The materials included in this column were selected on the basis of an item by item review of all government publications received at a major depository library. Emphasis is…

Reference books in print

Tom Schultheiss, Lorraine Hartline

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the…