Notes on key reviews in this issue
Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 25, Issue 6
ALA Guide to Sociology and Psychology Reference (RR 2011/260). The first in a projected series of guides from the American Library Association based on the new Guide to Reference database (www.guidetoreference.org),successor to the classic Guide to Reference Books.
Artefacts Canada (RR 2011/298). Freely accessible database offering 4,000,000 holdings records and 800,000 images for items held by Canadian museums, historical societies and other heritage institutions.
Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007-2010 (RR 2011/269). The first printed reference book (also available as an e-book) on the recent global economic crisis and no doubt the forerunner of others. Librarians should note the “concise” label – this encyclopaedia does not provide comprehensive treatment.
The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (RR 2011/261). Derived from the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (online and print(11 vols.)) (RR 2008/109).
Dictionary of Fashion History (RR 2011/286). Another title published to accompany the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (online as Berg Fashion Library (RR2011/184)). Revises and updates A Dictionary of English Costume 900-1900(1960).
Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development (RR 2011/255). Another major set from Springer available in three printed volumes or as an e-book. More comprehensive (and expensive) than The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development (RR 2006/064) and a recent alternative to The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence (RR 1998/060).
Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity (RR 2011/256). A welcome two-volume encyclopaedia in an area of Christianity not hitherto subject to much recent reference attention apart from the same publisher’s(Wiley-Blackwell) The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (RR2008/055).
Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Encyclopedia (RR 2011/296). From the same author as Chronology of the American Revolution (2008) and American Revolutionary War Leaders (RR2010/192).
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law (RR 2011/262). Third edition of this major reference for US law libraries reviewed here in its online version. Previously published as West’s Encyclopedia of American Law.
Oxford History of Western Music (RR 2011/289). The Oxford University Press programme of making major histories available online continues with this electronic version of Taruskin’s major printed set(based on the five vol. paperback (2009)).
Tony Chalcraft
