Overview
This brand new edition of Wolf's acclaimed work provides a self-contained, short course in essential library skills for patrons of college, high school and public libraries. The intent is to provide a quick and easy way to learn to do library research. The exercises contained herein give students hands-on experience by applying rules stated in the text to situations that approach real "research problems."
Subjects addressed include a brief tour of the library; card catalogs and cataloging systems; filing rules; online public access catalogs; subject searching; bibliographies; book reviews and parts of a book; dictionaries; encyclopedias; handbooks; atlases; gazetteers; periodicals; newspapers; online database searching and reference sources; literature and criticism; e-books; government information and government documents; biographies; business, career and consumer information; non-print materials and special services; online computer use in libraries and schools; and hints for writing term papers.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780786426355
- ISBN-10: 0786426357
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- Publish Date: February 2006
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.67 pounds
- Page Count: 216
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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