Books in the Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science series

Designed to meet the needs of scholars and researchers interested in China and Asia as well as librarians and library school students, this new reference is the only available book-length research guide to library and information science in mainland China and Taiwan.

The first comprehensive guide in English to libraries and archives in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, this book gives humanities and social science researchers easy access to numerous important unexplored collections.

As one of the most capable contemporary library school faculty members with an interest in government documents, John Richardson .

The Internet is widely used in various library and information operations. This is a guide to the most important books and articles published on the Internet and library and information services in 1994 and 1995.

This title includes more than 1500 annotated entries for books, articles, dissertations, and electronic resources to provide an interpretive framework for understanding the emergence of the internet as the dominant mode of global communication.

This bibliography is the first to provide systematic coverage of the numerous guides, directories, calendars, inventories, and registers on archives and manuscript collections in the United States.

Through an analysis of the professional literature of librarianship from 1876-1976, this select bibliography explores the evolution of children's work and the major developments, trends, innovations and practices that evolved or emerged in children's library services.

The literature of academic librarianship today reflects these changes and points to the direction in which academic libraries are headed. This book is a comprehensive guide to book chapters and articles written on academic librarianship between 1990 and 1993.

This is a catalog of more than 2,300 pre-1900 English-language dictionary titles in the Warren N. The most comprehensive collection of Western language dictionaries in the world, the Cordell Collection was begun in 1961 by the late Warren N.

A short title catalog and a compflation of English-language holdings for the pre-1901 materials have been published previously, but here, for the first time, is an extensive conflated listing which interfiles foreign and English-language materials, and gives access to holdings through a date index, a language index, and a subject guide.

The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles.

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century.The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.