This guide to reference sources covers a wide range of topics in a variety of formats including print, websites, CD-ROMs, and electronic databases.

585 new titles, most published from 1980 to 1989, and 213 new editions and supplement volumes of titles cited in the second edition. Appendix and extensive indexes. Recommended for undergraduate bibliographic collections. --ARBA

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