Chapter 1 Reference Sources and Basic Types
Chapter 1 Reference Sources and Basic Types
AND SOURCES
REFERENCE SERVICE DEFINITION
Ready reference -
these reference materials are used most
often in answering ready reference questions
THE FOLLOWING TITLES ARE EXAMPLES
OF GUIDES TO REFERENCE SOURCES
Bibliography
a systematic list or enumeration of written works by a specific author
or on a given subject, or that share one or more common
characteristics (language, form, period, place of publication, etc .).
refers to a list of references to sources cited in the text of an article
or book, or suggested by the author for further reading, usually
appearing at the end of the work.
A bibliography may be comprehensive or selective.
Long bibliographies may be published serially or in book form.
Library catalogs
- are comprehensive lists of the books, periodicals, maps, and other materials in a given collection,
arranged in systematic order to facilitate retrieval (usually alphabetically by author, title, and/or
subject).
- In most modern libraries, the card catalog has been converted to machine -readable bibliographic
records and is available online.
- The purpose of a library catalog, as stated by Charles C. Cutter in Rules for a Dictionary Catalog
(1904), later modified by Bohdan S. Wynar in Introduction to Cataloging and Classification (8th ed.,
1992), is to offer the user a variety of approaches or access points to the information contained in
the collection.
Specifically, they aim the following::
To enable a person to find any work, whether issued in print or in nonprint format, when one of the
following is known:
The author - By a given author
The title - The subject
To show what the library has - On a given and related subjects
In a given kind of literature - To assist in the choice of a work
As to the bibliographic edition - As to its character (literary or topical)