The Humanities: 5th edition: A Selective Guide to Information Sources Available to Purchase

First published in 1974, with further editions following in 1979, 1988, 1994, and now in a fifth edition, the purpose of this guide is “to provide a work useful to teachers and students in schools of library and information science, reference librarians, collection development officers in libraries, humanities scholars and others who have information needs in the broad discipline”. In fact, not unlike Robert Balay’s Guide to Reference Books (US) or Walford’s Guide to Reference Material (UK). But, if there is a resemblance between these three books, Blazek and Aversa’s selection guide is restricted to a single broad area, albeit...