Designed to assist those who need information on the subject in making the best use possible of the various available books, journals, abstracting services, and databases. Begins with a concise survey of aquaculture and its literature. There follows a select annotated bibliography of major reference sources, among them: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, primary and review journals, and directories. Concludes with a directory of organizations worldwide that are actively involved in aquaculture, marine science, fisheries, and similar fields. This is particularly useful for the details it gives concerning these organizations' library facilities: subjects covered, size of the collection, whether interlibrary loans are offered, publications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Survey of agricultural engineering and its literature; Annotated Bibliography of sources of information; Organizational sources of information.

Cette bibliographie commentee touche tous les domaines du savoir humain, soit de l'Art a la Zoologie;elle signale les ouvrages les plus importants soit des bibliographies, des index, des encyclopedies, des dictionnaires, des guides, des revues etc dont le support ed'information est soit du papier, soit un cd-rom, soit une base de donnees en ligne directe, soit un microforme ect. L'objectif du guide Walford est de devenir La source d'information sur tout type de reference, nonobstant le support technique.

Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications. Annotations indicate scope of the work, size (often the number of entries), kinds of material included, purpose, arrangement, nature of entries, indexes, special features, and a recommendation. Author, title, and subject indexes provide easy access to the entries. With its deep and comprehensive coverage, this work will help not only in the process of selecting and acquiring materials for the library but also in the process of identification of items for reference, readers' advisory, interlibrary loan, and collection evaluation.

Designed to help in locating and evaluating print and non-print sci-tech information sources, this book contains articles covering such topics as channels of communication, publishing of information and cost of literature. An extensive, annotated bibliography of sources completes the text.