Friday, March 09, 2007

REF - New Reference Resources added

Don sent this great intro to two new sources that have just been added to our collection. Be sure to take a look. I'm adding the call numbers...

We have received two new reference tools that fill gass in our collection.One is the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature in 4 volumes. It is the first comprehensive reference work in English providing detailed information on all aspects of children’s literature from the medieval period to modern times. It is current, with articles on digital libraries, crossover books, internet books, censorship and many other buzz topics. It has delightful illustrations. A typical entry, for example, Daniel Defoe includes biographical details, adaptations and a bibliography of further reading. It provides see also, for example, in this case, Adventure Books, Colonial Fiction and Robinsonnades whatever they are. Articles are signed. REF PN1008.5.O94 2006

The other title is The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in 10 vols, which received a rave review in Choice. This is the 2nd ed. It is a Macmillan Thomson Gale publication. Besides offering good summaries of the lives and works of philosophers living and dead, it provides great summaries of complex topics, such as Utopias, Marxist Philosophy or the schools of Buddhism. There are see also references and bibliographies following the entry. REF B51 .E53 2006

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