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1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.

- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.

Discusses the various types of reference, bibliographic, and information sources in the health sciences and their uses for reference work. Dates are not noted for the first two editions, which are here updated to account for new or expanded electronic and online sources, including computer multimedia reference. Addressed to practicing and student librarians. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Index provides a broad coverage and access to book reviews in the general social sciences, humanities, sciences, and fine arts, as well as general interest magazines and includes journals from Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and Australia. In addition, it indexes several journals that, while published in the US, concentrate on reviewing foreign published or foreign language books. These include Hispania, French Review, German Quarterly and World Literature Today.

Introduces and defines the documentation and decision making process in collection development, explores organizational models for collection development in health sciences libraries, and describes rationales and methodologies of assessing health sciences library collections. Also discusses the relationship of collection development and assessment to other library functions and addresses the budgeting process. Includes example policies and a glossary. For librarians in all types of health science libraries, and for use in library school classes in medical librarianship and collection development. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A compilation of evaluations appearing in Reference books bulletin (a section of the journal, Booklist)