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Subject(s)

• Library research—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Research libraries—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Research—Methodology—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Related work(s)

Beasley, David R., 1931- How to use a research library. [Browse]

Series

Heritage

Summary note

Written and organized for easy access, the reader is guided step-by-step through library rules and methods of operation, the effective use of various cataloguing systems, and the location of materials.

Notes

Revised edition of: How to use a research library.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Quick Reference Guide
• How to Obtain a Book or Periodical
• Requesting a Publication
• CD-ROMs as Indexing Services
• Filing Request Slips
• Publications in Microform
• Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
• Research on the Internet
• Librarians and How to Deal with Them
• Rules and How to Deal with Them
• 1 General Approach to the Research Library
• What a Research Library Offers
• Where to Begin
• Online Searching
• The Terminal
• Networks
• Information Retrieval Services
• Data Banks or Databases
• Strategy
• When Not to Use Online Retrieval
• 2 Catalogues and How to Use Them
• Card Catalogues
• Filing Quirks
• Locating Series Volumes or Other Parts of Works
• Requesting a Work from the Catalogue
• Book Catalogues
• NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries, 1911-71
• Automated Book Catalogues
• Interim List
• Carlyle System
• Different Cataloguing Arrangements
• Other Types of Catalogues in Research Libraries
• Open-Shelf Reference Books
• The Request Slip
• Supplementary Catalogues
• Authority Catalogues
• Deferred Catalogues
• Special Catalogues
• NYPL Catalog of Government Publications in The Research Libraries
• Publications on Microform
• 3 Tools of Research
• The Bibliography: Its Forms and Uses
• Bibliographies to Books
• Checklists
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Bibliographies of Biographies
• Bibliographies of Monograph Series
• Bibliographies of Directories
• Periodical Indexes
• Indexes to Newspapers
• Indexes to Literature Reviews
• Indexes That Give Abstracts
• Indexes to Special Issues of Periodicals
• Bibliographical Lists, Citation Indexes, Reports
• Primary Information and Current Facts
• Special Materials
• Government Publications
• Microfiche Collections of Documents Made by Commercial Companies.
• Cooperative Systems and Interlibrary Loans
• RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network)
• OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
• UTLAS (University of Toronto Library Automation Systems)
• WLN (Washington [State] Library Network)
• Library Consortiums
• METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council) System
• (CRL) Center for Research Libraries, Chicago
• European Services
• Videotex
• Levels of Research
• Summing Up
• 4 Research in Depth
• Retrievable Information: Analysing the Subject
• Approaches to Retrievable Information
• The Researchers
• The Historical Approach
• The Geographic Approach
• The Subject Approach
• Other Approaches
• When to Use Bibliographies, Indexes, Books, Periodicals, and Manuscripts as Exemplified by Subject Area
• General Knowledge
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Sciences
• Special Collections
• Researching in the Performing Arts
• Theatre
• Music
• Dance
• Medical Libraries
• Law
• General Rules for When to Use What
• When to Use Other Libraries
• The Microform Problem
• How to Deal with It
• Appendix: World's Major Research Libraries and Methods of Approach
• The New York Public Library
• Harvard University Library
• British Library (England)
• Bibliotheque Nationale (France)
• State V.I. Lenin Library of the Russian Federation
• Saltykov-Schchedrin State Public Library
• National Library of China
• National Diet Library (Japan)
• U.S. Library of Congress
• The Library of Parliament (Canada)
• Brief Bibliography
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 1-4426-5671-9
• 1-4426-3340-9

OCLC

• 911856045
• 918589111
• 979581166

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442656710

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