The humanities: A selective guide to information sources

by Ron Blazek, Elizabeth S. Aversa

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

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Read For School, Library Science

382 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1988

Reviews

[Tina Dalton · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is officially the first e-book that I've read all the way through. I did not enjoy the experience, but the cheapskate in me prevailed and I elected to read the free e-version rather than purchase the textbook.

However, my low rating is not based on that fact. This book is outdated, that's all there is to it. Some of the links provided as resources in the book are broken, which unfortunately lessens the book's authority. Overall though, it was helpful and I did use many of the resources mentioned.

[Laura Birkenhauer]

Outdated. Surprised it was a required reading for my library school course.