Librarian Test

Book Review Digest

Author/Title Index from 1905-1974 by H.W. Wilson. Provides books, reviews, periodicals, indexes. Titles are considered specialized. Use by students seeking background on a given work/readers looking for a specific ref. books. Reviews are limited to print books. The books and/or authors are fairly well known. Gives brief summary.

EMBASE

Biomedical and drug literature online from Elsevier Science; updated monthly.

Booklist

Book reviews, periodicals: semi-monthly, published by the ALA

Incunabula

Books printed before 1501, an artifact of an early period.

Who's Who in America

Brief biographical entries.

Cookies

Collect and save information on where you've been.

World Almanac

Comprehensive reference source of up-to-date brief information about countries, personalities, subjects, and events.

Guidebook

Contain descriptive information about cities and countries.

Omnibus

Contain full novels usually by the same author.

Collections

Contain independent works by the same author.

Anthology

Contain works by various authors.

Random House Dictionary

Contemporary dictionary. 315,000 entries, 2500 illustrations. Added features include bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, & Italian. For layperson, used for contemporary English usage

Sears List of Subject Headings

Corresponds to the DDC system.

Book Review Index

Covers reviews in more than 900s periodicals from 1965 to date. There's only a citation for the review.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Database that provides users with repair guides for small engines.

Dictionary of National Biography

Dead Brits.

Harnod's Librarian's Glossary

Dictionary of library terms.

Webster's Biographical Dictionary

Dictionary style with brief basic information.

Pre-censorship

When a librarian does not order a certain book for the library based on conscious or unconscious bias.

ERIC

Educational Resources Information Center. A bibliographic database from U.S. Department of Education that corresponds to two print resources.

Current Biography

Essay-length biographical entries, dates back to 1940; WWII - present.

Parallel Arrangement

Example: setting aside a separate section for oversized books.

700s

Fine arts

Congressional Directory

From the GPO, U.S. Senate. Includes maps showing the congressional districts, brief biographies of the members of Congress, committees and officials from the House and Senate, statistical information, departments.

000s

Generalities (encyclopedias)

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

Guide to periodicals, arranged under subject headings and title index.

900s

History & Geography

Serials

Include yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Current Biography Yearbook

Issued annually, includes short bibliographies, pictures, and an index by professions.

400s

Language (dictionaries)

Wilson Library Bulletin

Lighthouse as its trademark; regular features called "Current Reference Book" and "Displays for the Month" about library displays.

Accessioning

Listing books in order of purchase/acquisition.

Who Was When

Lists 10,000 celebrated individuals from 500B.C. to present both by date and by field of activity. An alphabetical listing follows. Biography -- Chronology -- Historical -- Tables. Ref920.

800s

Literature

Trade Books

Local annual or biennial publication that gives information about towns and counties.

MARC

Machine Readable Cataloging. Created by the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, a standard bibliographic records; MARC records consist of fields.

500s

Natural sciences

U.S. Government Manual

Office of the Federal Register - National Archives and Records Administration Provides comprehensive info about the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the government.

World Book Encyclopedia

One of the best encyclopedias for children. Good balance of text and illustrations. Has a print and electronic format. 15,000 entries. 031 World.

Encyclopedia Americana

One of the largest English-language encyclopedias, now has an online subscription. Especially useful for finding little-known material about the U.S.

New Columbia Encyclopedia

Only one volume. Best in its category. 031.

Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary

Only unabridged dictionary other than Oxford English Dictionary. Descriptive, sometimes difficult.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition, allows you to scan text and make it available for editing.

Library Trends

Periodical published by University of Illinois Library School.

100s

Philosophy & Psychology

Granger's Index to Poetry

Poem index for looking up poems by title, first line, last line, or through its subject index; does NOT include the actual text of poems, just refers to where to find the poems and gives the author.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Produced by the Department of Labor.

ARBA

Provides critical evaluations of reference materials

RSS

Really Simple Syndication (feed reader)

200s

Religion

Jobber

Wholesale bookseller who stocks books and supplies them to libraries.

Alphabetizing Rules

Word by word then letter by letter. We ignore spacing and write as one word. Names beginning with Mc are filed as if spelled Mac. Numbers are filed as if spelled out. Abbreviations are files as if spelled out (ex: St.=Saint). Books by a person are filed before books about a person. When authors have the same name, the older author comes first in the catalog. Historical subheadings are filed in chronological order (oldest first).

Yearbook

Yearly supplement to an annual encyclopedia.

Poole's Periodical Index

Retrospective; covers January 1, 1887 to January 1, 1892, published by Houghton Mifflin. Was the first general magazine index. Indexed entirely by subject. An invaluable key to 19th century periodicals.

A woman wants to place items in a display case, but the librarian in charge is out and will return in two hours. What do you tell her?

She can wait, or to come back when the librarian is back.

300s

Social Science

Morning Star

Source to research rates on Mutual Funds.

Dictionary of Occupational Titles

U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Employment Service.

Bluebooks

U.S. Government, both state and local. Standard reference work for state politics. Publication usually produced by state government. Comes in all colors. Contains general information about the State, or a description of the government and biographical information concerning the legislature and governor's office. Sometimes a blue book and state statistical abstract will be one and the same. (Blue Books may also refer to car price - NADA and Edmund's - and may also refer to books concerning adoption.)

Oxford English Dictionary

Unabridged, concerning etymology.

Reference source

Used to find references for research material.

Macropaedia

"Knowledge in depth" lengthy articles

Propaedie

"Outline of knowledge" serves as a topical guide to the set ("What can I learn from Britannica concerning one area or another of human knowledge?")

Micropaedia

"Ready reference" shorter articles to be used independently or in support of the macro articles.

Visual Dictionary

Arranged by subject.

Concordance

Arranged so as to form an alphabetical index of all passages or words.

Fiction Catalog

A Wilson reference book that is a guide to selected works of fiction; arranged alphabetically by author with a separate title and subject index; some titles include analytical blurbs and reviews.

Compendium

A brief summary of a larger work or a field of knowledge. Example: yearbooks, almanacs, and Statistical Abstracts of the United States.

Atlas

A collection of maps.

Gazeteer

A geographical dictionary/index with historical, geographical, and statistical information. Example: The Columbia Lippincott Gazeteer.

Consortium

A group of people who band together for a common goal or purpose.

Whitaker's Almanac

A reference book, published in the United Kingdom, originally by Whitaker & Sons, now by Bloomsbury. Published annually.

Epitome

A work that has been abridged or summarized from some larger work.

Library of Congress Classification System is used in...?

Academic libraries.

Cumulative Book Index (CBI)

An author-title-subject international bibliography of books published in the English language 11 times a year by H.W. Wilson

Expurgated edition

An edition of a book that omits objectionable material.

Collier's Encyclopedia

Another adult encyclopedia but with less coverage and detail that Britannica and Americana

600s

Applied sciences

Statesman Yearbook

St. Martin's Press. 1804 to date, no electronic format. Presents a political, economic and social account of the countries of the world - Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year. Political science -- periodicals, 310 Features: map for each country; traditions; new national anthems, comparative stats. Well indexed, including name, place, product. Groups countries alphabetically. Good for ready reference.

National Union Catalog

The National Union Catalog is a printed catalog of books catalogued by the Library of Congress and other American and Canadian libraries, issued serially beginning in the 1950s.

Encyclopedia Britannica

The oldest English-language encyclopedia still in production.

Transliteration

To represent letters/words in the corresponding characters of another alphabet. Not telling you the meaning of the word, but how to pronounce it.