Staff Pick for National Library Week: Whole Library Handbook
Curious, Useful, Edifying, Inspiring: The Reference Books of McCabe Library
Staff Pick for the week of April 3rd, 2006
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!
The Whole Library Handbook 4
Call number: REF Z665.2 .U6 W49 2006
Chosen by: Ann Wheeler, Reference and Instruction Intern
Ann says:
“This is a fantastic reference source for librarians and library patrons alike, containing information, data, and factoids about all types of libraries. Use it to answer those burning questions, including… How and why was the Library of Congress classification system invented? Flip to page 317 to find out. What exactly is a presidential library, and where is Herbert Hoover’s? Check out page 37. How do you say the word “library” in 131 different languages, including ASL and Morse code? Page 516 has the answer. And who can resist an essay on Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System, with the opening sentence, ‘Melvil Dewey…was a driven man, tense, complicated, concentrated, hounded by a fear of death and decay.’ Read the rest on page 100.”
The Whole Library Handbook 4 is on display above the McCabe Reference Desk.
