A review of the “game-changing” collection, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.
eReviews Oxford Scholarly Editions Online | November 15, 2012
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Reference Reviews | November 15, 2012
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Reviews of The Encyclopedia of New Venture Management, Corporate Disasters, and CQ Press Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy, plus a full list of reference reviews in the Nov. 15 issue.
Reference Short Takes | November 1, 2012
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Reference short takes from the Nov. 1 issue.
New and Upcoming Reference Databases
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See Publisher Index with contact information general reference Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford Univ. Oct. 2012. oxfordhandbooks.com. Pricing for an annual subscription is dependent upon the size and type of the institution. GP Oxford Index. Oxford Univ. Sept. 2012. Fully developed beta site: oxfordindex.oup.com. Free service. UG GP GA Oxford Reference. Oxford Univ. Sept. 2012. oxfordreference.com. Subscription [...]
Reference New Releases | November 1, 2012
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More than 700 recent and forthcoming reference print and online products from 100-plus publishers, organized by category, with grade levels for easier selection See Publisher Index with contact information general reference Encyclopedias; Almanacs; Directories; Atlases; Gazetteers; Genealogy; Ebook Platforms American Book Publishing Record ® Annual. 2012 ed. Bowker/Grey House. Mar. 2013. NAp. ISB9250642. $635. GP [...]
Publisher Index: Over 100 publishers and producers, with complete contact information
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A ABC-CLIO 130 Cremona Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93117; 800-368-6868/FAX 866-270-3856 customerservice@abc-clio.com www.abc-clio.com Abingdon Press PO Box 801, Nashville, TN 37202; 800-251-3320/FAX 800-836-7802 orders@abingdonpress.com www.abingdonpress.com Adam Matthew Education 321 N. Clark St., 5th fl., Chicago, IL, 60654; 312-445-6290; info@amedu.com www.amedu.com Alexander Street Press 3212 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314; 800-889-5937; sales@alexanderstreet.com www.alexanderstreet.com AltaMira Press (Rowman [...]
The road to mastery: It used to be easy to introduce the library’s riches. Here’s how to get back to the good old days
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There are moments and conversations that stay with you long after they end. For John Dove, one such moment was during a lively discussion at the 2006 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting at a panel of the Reference Services in Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, when one reference librarian shared the challenges of providing [...]
Channel-Surfing to Success: Want to send them away happy? Take a few tips from the business world
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Librarians—quick to innovate, quick to communicate, quick to adapt—are champions of arranging, evaluating, and navigating information. Yet it’s still a challenge to bridge the gap between what users want (or think they want) and what we have to offer. When it comes to libraries, what is the value of providing information services? At the University [...]
Reference Reviews | November 1, 2012
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Reviews of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, John Maxymuk’s NFL Head Coaches, and Thomas Mockaitis’s The Iraq War, plus a full list of reference reviews from the Nov. 1 issue.
eReviews JSTOR | November 1, 2012
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