Chapter 15: Almanacs, Yearbooks, and Handbooks

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The online version of the Time Almanac is known as

Information Please Almanac

Specialized almanacs examples include

International Motion Picture Almanac, Almanac of American Politics, Cities Ranked & Rated, Library and Book Trade Almanac, Sports Illustrated Sports Almanac

Astronomical and Meteorological Data Almanacs include

Old Farmer's almanac, Farmer's Almanac

Christopher Columbus used

Perpetual Almanac

A common handbook around the home is

Physicians Desk Reference

The most famous American almanac is

Poor Richard's Almanack

Hobby handbook examples include

Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, Complete Book of the Olympics

A free government handbook is

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Two print almanac examples are

The World Almanac and Book of Facts and Time Almanac

Country and Regional Almanacs include

Whitaker's Almanack, Cambridge Fact-finder, Canadian Almanac & Directory

Statistical Tabular and General Information almanacs include

World Almanac Book of Facts, New York Times Almanac, Information Please Almanac

Almanacs for children include

World Almanac for Kids, factmonster.com, Time for Kids Almanac

Handbooks generally cover

a limited area of knowledge and can be used to gain in depth knowledge about a specific topic

To evaluate almanacs/yearbooks/handbooks and manuals consider

accuracy, indexing, documentation of original source of the information, comprehensiveness, uniqueness, format and currency

The terms handbook and manual are used

almost interchangeably

Print almanacs are usually updated

annually

Almanacs are

collections of facts, statistics and lists gathered together in a convenient format for easy reference

Disadvantages of online almanacs include

confusing interface, poor search options, and annoying advertisements

Yearbooks are most useful for

giving an overview of trends that occurred in a particular year

Famous First Facts is a

handbook

Guiness World Records is a type of

handbook

Style manuals and citation guides are also considered

handbooks

Most almanacs are broad

in geographic coverage and subject coverage

Credo Reference

is an online handbook that contains more than 475 full text reference sources

Two categories of sources are available online

open source (free) and subscription

Yearbooks regularly index

personal names

Almanacs are full of bits of data on a wide spectrum of topics while yearbooks

provide more in depth information on a specific topic

Manuals provide

step by step instructions on how to do specific tasks

Masterplots causes much debate among librarians and

summarizes the plots of major literary works while offering critical assessments of those works

Because of the broad range of factual material in almanacs they are frequently used for

trivia contests

The NYPL Desk Reference is a

type of handbook that compiles information frequently requested at reference desks

Titles frequently used for ready reference include

Emily Post's Etiquette, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Robert's Rules of Order, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Legal Researcher's Desk Reference, and Hoover's handbooks

Film students will be interested in

Halliwell's Who Who in Movies, IMDB, and Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

Almanacs first appeared in

16th and 17th centuries as calendars

American newspapers began to publish almanacs in

19th century

Examples of books of days handbooks include

American Decades, Chase's Calendar of Events, Folklore of World Holidays, and Today in History

General yearbooks include

Brittanica Book of the Year, Facts on File World News Digest, Europa World Year Book, Statesman's Yearbook, online World Factbook

The most important handbook of the physical sciences is

CRC Handbooks

The diagnostic manual for psychiatry is

DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)


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