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Universal Schemes Covering All Subjects. Examples Include

The document defines and describes several types of reference materials including almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, biographical resources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, indexes, and classification schemes. It provides brief explanations of what each reference material contains such as specific facts, maps, lists of resources, information about individuals, words and their definitions, lists of people and organizations, alphabetically organized subjects, abundant information on a single subject, and tools for locating information. The document emphasizes that reference materials should be organized and explain any terms or symbols to make the information easy to understand.

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Universal Schemes Covering All Subjects. Examples Include

The document defines and describes several types of reference materials including almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, biographical resources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, indexes, and classification schemes. It provides brief explanations of what each reference material contains such as specific facts, maps, lists of resources, information about individuals, words and their definitions, lists of people and organizations, alphabetically organized subjects, abundant information on a single subject, and tools for locating information. The document emphasizes that reference materials should be organized and explain any terms or symbols to make the information easy to understand.

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Almanacs: Contain specific facts, statistical data, tables of comparative information, and organized lists

of basis reference information related to people, places, events, etc. Usually cover broad periods of
time, whereas Yearbooks will have the same time of information for a single year.
Atlases: Contain an organized group of physical, political, road, and/or thematic maps. Symbols, scales,
and terms used in the atlas should be explained in an easy to understand and complete manner.
Bibliographies: Contain one or more lists of resources and materials sharing some common attribute
such as location, publishing date, subject, etc. A good bibliography should include all pertinent
bibliographical data. Some will include descriptive or critical annotations.
Biographical Resources: Contain information about individual people or locate (index) other works which
provide this type of information. Collected biographies can cover a given subject, a stated time period,
or other special groups of individuals.
Dictionaries: Contain words of a given language and other information such as their origins,
pronunciations, and definitions. Unabridged dictionaries contain 250,000 words or more. Special
dictionaries include picture dictionaries, foreign language dictionaries, synonym dictionaries, thesauri,
etc.
Directories: Contain an organized list of people and/or organizations of some type. Other information
such as addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. are included for each entry.
Encyclopedias, General: Contain an alphabetically organized listing of a broad range of subjects with
basic information for each entry. General encyclopedias provide a good basis for the beginning stages of
research. They are also helpful resources for ready reference questions.

Encyclopedias, Subject: Contain the same type of information and organized like a general encyclopedia.
The entries are limited to those that fall within the subject encyclopedia's scope of the coverage.
Handbooks: Contain an abundance of information related to one subject. This is one type of reference
material which needs to be circulating in order to serve the patron well.
Indexes: Contain information necessary for locating information in a given specific item or a type of
resource. They help to locate information in periodicals, anthologies, newspapers, etc. Concordances
and quotation dictionaries are specific types of indexes.
Universal schemes covering all subjects. Examples include Dewey Decimal
Classification, Universal Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Classification
Specific classification schemes for particular subjects or types of materials. Examples include
Iconclass, British Catalogue of Music Classification, and Dickinson classification, or the NLM
Classification for medicine.

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