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Background Information
- Reference sources are not usually read from cover to cover.
- They are meant to be consulted quickly.
- Most reference sources provide useful indexes and/or tables of contents to look up specific information.
Specialized Encyclopedias and Dictionaries provide:
- brief summaries of topics or concepts
- provide an outline of a field of study
- useful starting points when researching a new topic
- references for further reading
Browsing
Reference Collection- 2nd FloorGeneral Collection- 3rd Floor A-N, 4th Floor P-Z
Encyclopedia Americana Ref AE 5. E 333
Encyclopedia of American Social History Ref HN 57.E58
Historical Dictionary of the New Deal Ref E 806. H58
