The Oxford Guide to Library Research Available to Purchase

Drawing on every scrap of experience amassed during a long career which embraced research at doctoral level, spells as a private investigator and as a freelance researcher, appointments as a reference librarian in two university libraries and, for 15 years, in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, Thomas Mann’s aim in this compact guide is to outline alternative techniques for librarians and information specialists to adopt when conducting subject research. Rather than the customary approaches, either by subject, or by type of literature, Mann outlines a different strategy structured round methods of subject searching. These encompass controlled...