The Whole Library Handbook 5: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa About Libraries and Library Services

摘要

George M. Eberhart, editor of this fifth permutation of a great idea, presents a handbook of library what-is and how-to information for any questioner interested in libraries, their professionals, their collections, their operations, their patrons, or their issues. Additionally, the handbook addresses questions in library core values, ethics, technology, currency, and other topics and facts, including my personal favourite section of trivia and fun facts: Librariana. And presumably because librarians like making lists and then giving the lists to people to help them find things (Wilson, 1968), this Librariana section provides lists like Famous Librarian's Favorite Books (one of Eberhart's favourite books is Wikipedia); like Libraries and Librarians in Film and TV 2004-2012 (there are 25 pages worth of titles with abstracts); and like images from a library postcard collection of collector Larry T. Nix.