Synopsis
Updated and expanded to embrace developments in the electronic environment and new emphases on multicultural and female influences and accomplishments, this text offers a reliable guide to humanities information sources published through summer 1994. More comprehensive than previous editions, it includes approximately 1,250 main entries (the last edition contained 973), with increases equally proportioned in all sections. In addition, it has many more coentries and minor entries described within the annotations of major entries. Chapters cover general humanities, philosophy, religion, visual arts, performing arts, and language and literature. For each area there is one chapter on sources and another on access. Designed for teachers and students in schools of library and information science, previous editions of this book have been widely adopted as a text in library schools. It is also valuable to reference librarians, collection development officers in libraries, humanities scholars, and others wi
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About the Author
RON BLAZEK is Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee.
ELIZABETH AVERSA is Professor and Director, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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"Now in its fifth edition, the book remains the guide in the field, with extensive updating, expansion, revision of text content...Librarians and researchers will still find this book, with its high standard and fine tradition, to be an indispensable, up-to-date guide to information patterns and sources in the humanities. Highly recommended for all academic libraries."-Reference & User Services Quarterly
"Review of previous edition: For a very up-to-date overview The Humanities is highly recommended for public and academic libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"Review of previous edition: Detailed and comprehensive, this volume is a welcome addition to any personal or institutional humanities collection."-Public Library Quarterly
"Review of previous edition: Remains as fundamental a source as Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books (Current Reference Books, September 1992) has been under its various editors."-Wilson Library Bulletin
"Review of previous edition: New emphases on the influence of women and multiculturalism and on the impact of electronic information make this guide even more valuable...Annotations are thorough and informative...Recommended for all libraries."-Choice
?Review of previous edition: For a very up-to-date overview The Humanities is highly recommended for public and academic libraries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
?Review of previous edition: Detailed and comprehensive, this volume is a welcome addition to any personal or institutional humanities collection.?-Public Library Quarterly
?Review of previous edition: Remains as fundamental a source as Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books (Current Reference Books, September 1992) has been under its various editors.?-Wilson Library Bulletin
?Review of previous edition: New emphases on the influence of women and multiculturalism and on the impact of electronic information make this guide even more valuable...Annotations are thorough and informative...Recommended for all libraries.?-Choice
?Now in its fifth edition, the book remains the guide in the field, with extensive updating, expansion, revision of text content...Librarians and researchers will still find this book, with its high standard and fine tradition, to be an indispensable, up-to-date guide to information patterns and sources in the humanities. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.?-Reference & User Services Quarterly
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