[9780981773629] 2009. (hardcover) xxiv, 422pp. 4to. Brown boards, peach titles to front and spine; pictorial to top board. Corners and upper edge bumped; corners show small tears. Starting at title page; otherwise clean and bright. Contributors: Mel Bohn; Jean Piper Burton; Jeanette Drueke; Gayla Koerting; Larry McDonald; Lisa Mitten; Marcella Stark. Under Sponsorship of Mountain Plains Library Association and Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Prairies and Plains; The Reference Literature of a Region

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KWS, Chicago London

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0981773621

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9780981773629

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Hardcover

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An analysis of the reference sources—encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries—that readers and researchers use for investigating questions regarding the history and culture of the prairies and plains region, this resource is helpful in preparing class papers, resolving queries, building collections, and developing strategies.

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Robert Balay is the former head of the reference department of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University and the reference editor of the American Library Association’s Choice magazine.

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