Beasley's guide to library research / David Beasley.

Revised edition of: How to use a research library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Written and organized for easy access, the reader is guided step-by-step through library rules and methods of operation, the effective use of various cataloguing systems, and the location of materials.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Quick Reference Guide -- How to Obtain a Book or Periodical -- Requesting a Publication -- CD-ROMs as Indexing Services -- Filing Request Slips -- Publications in Microform -- Interlibrary Loan (ILL) -- Research on the Internet -- Librarians and How to Deal with Them -- Rules and How to Deal with Them -- 1 General Approach to the Research Library -- What a Research Library Offers -- Where to Begin -- Online Searching -- The Terminal -- Networks -- Information Retrieval Services -- Data Banks or Databases -- Strategy -- When Not to Use Online Retrieval -- 2 Catalogues and How to Use Them -- Card Catalogues -- Filing Quirks -- Locating Series Volumes or Other Parts of Works -- Requesting a Work from the Catalogue -- Book Catalogues -- NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries, 1911-71 -- Automated Book Catalogues -- Interim List -- Carlyle System -- Different Cataloguing Arrangements -- Other Types of Catalogues in Research Libraries -- Open-Shelf Reference Books -- The Request Slip -- Supplementary Catalogues -- Authority Catalogues -- Deferred Catalogues -- Special Catalogues -- NYPL Catalog of Government Publications in The Research Libraries -- Supplementary Catalogues -- Publications on Microform -- 3 Tools of Research -- The Bibliography: Its Forms and Uses -- Bibliographies to Books -- Checklists -- Annotated Bibliographies -- Bibliographies of Biographies -- Bibliographies of Monograph Series -- Bibliographies of Directories -- Periodical Indexes -- Indexes to Newspapers -- Indexes to Literature Reviews -- Indexes That Give Abstracts -- Indexes to Special Issues of Periodicals -- Bibliographical Lists, Citation Indexes, Reports -- Primary Information and Current Facts -- Special Materials -- Government Publications -- Microfiche Collections of Documents Made by Commercial Companies.

Cooperative Systems and Interlibrary Loans -- RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) -- OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) -- UTLAS (University of Toronto Library Automation Systems) -- WLN (Washington [State] Library Network) -- Library Consortiums -- METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council) System -- (CRL) Center for Research Libraries, Chicago -- European Services -- Videotex -- Levels of Research -- Summing Up -- 4 Research in Depth -- Retrievable Information: Analysing the Subject -- Approaches to Retrievable Information -- The Researchers -- The Historical Approach -- The Geographic Approach -- The Subject Approach -- Other Approaches -- When to Use Bibliographies, Indexes, Books, Periodicals, and Manuscripts as Exemplified by Subject Area -- General Knowledge -- Humanities -- Social Sciences -- Sciences -- Special Collections -- Researching in the Performing Arts -- Theatre -- Music -- Dance -- Medical Libraries -- Law -- General Rules for When to Use What -- When to Use Other Libraries -- The Microform Problem -- How to Deal with It -- Appendix: World's Major Research Libraries and Methods of Approach -- The New York Public Library -- Harvard University Library -- British Library (England) -- Bibliothèque Nationale (France) -- State V.I. Lenin Library of the Russian Federation -- Saltykov-Schchedrin State Public Library -- National Library of China -- National Diet Library (Japan) -- U.S. Library of Congress -- The Library of Parliament (Canada) -- Brief Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

English.

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