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This useful two-volume set will provide buyers of subject encyclopedias with a substantial amount of valuable information they can use in making their purchasing decisions. It will also provide all types of librarians and their patrons with a quick, one-stop method for locating the appropriate subject encyclopedias for their needs and for locating articles in the 100 encyclopedias. Librarians who specialize in bibliographic instruction will also find it to be a useful tool for teaching students how to locate needed information. ... Read more

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In which songbook can you find "If You're Happy and You Know It," "Shake My Sillies Out," or "The Teddy Bear's Picnic"? Which Raffi book has "The Shaving Song"? If you have ever spent hours or even days searching for a song title or words to a partially remembered song, you will appreciate this book. It indexes nearly 2,000 songs in songbooks published between 1978 and 1993. The songs, primarily in the English language, reflect Western culture and are commonly used in school and children's programs. Alphabetical title and first line indexes provide ready access to the songs; a complete subject index with 425 headings and cross-references helps users locate songs for special programs and other needs. A list of the books indexed, arranged alphabetically by author, provides complete bibliographic data on each song collection. ... Read more

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The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography, fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words' it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle, but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects, Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Linguistic Survey of Scotland) and the numerous publications they have spawned. All atlases as well as the maps in the many individual studies and scattered articles are fully documented. Each of the over 2000 lexical entries identifies the original survey by questionnaire number and gives a detailed list of all the references to printed maps in which these words and phrases are contained. The present volume will prove an indispensable guide for all researchers in the field of dialectology and linguistic variation, enabling its users to gain quick access to the various sources of maps. In this way the Index -- while still a simple work of reference -- may also furnish the materials for more thorough studies of map-making and its implications. ... Read more

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The goal of this index, first published by Norma Olin Ireland as "Index to Inspiration" (Faxon, 1976) and well-reviewed in library journals ("..."copiously cross-referenced... easy to use... Public libraries will find it most useful" --Booklist; "..." would serve well as an aid for the student needing a start on an essay or the administrator scratching for a commencement address."--CHOICE), is to help inspire speakers and writers who wish to address others effectively and imaginatively on all manner of subjects, early and modern, serious and humorous, with some emphasis on current problems of the day, especially on topics of moral significance. The word "inspiration" is used in the broad sense of the term, meaning not only religious but creative inspiration as well. The first edition analyzed 220 books; the second edition retains the original concept, analyzing 396 books published primarily between 1975 and 1990, with additional subheadings. ... Read more

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Provides subject access to poems in 263 poetry collections. Supplements the 1957 index of the same title. ... Read more

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The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index. ... Read more

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This index by Goetting, Richard, Curry, and Miguez makes access to material and answers about the Newbery and Caldecott medal books and honor books quick and easy. It is a practical, useful tool for finding current information and is written specifically for librarians and teachers.

In order to locate the award-winning books and information with ease, the index is arranged in alphabetical order by subject heading. The subject headings are based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Literary genre headings such as historical fiction, mystery fiction, and adventure fiction, as well as form headings, such as biography and poetry are incorporated. Each entry includes author, title, and date of the Newbery or Caldecott award.

Newbery and Caldecott award books are an important part of every child’s literature learning experience. These books stay in print longer than other children’s books and are of higher demand and interest. With this new tool, all educators can promote learning with these books quickly and easily. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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For the past three decades, ARBA has kept librarians up to date on the latest reference materials by providing high-quality, critical reviews. The 2009 edition of ARBA continues this great tradition by providing users with access to 1,500-plus reviews of both print and online resources, written by more than 400 academic, public, and school librarians who are experts in their field. With coverage of nearly 500 subject disciplines, ranging from the social sciences and humanities to science and technology, users are guaranteed to find information on the latest resources available in the areas they are most trying to expand their collection. With ARBA in hand, collection development librarians can maintain their library's high standards of quality and make the best use of their budget.

The Associate Editor, along with the five ARBA Advisory Board members, will compile 1,500-plus critical reviews of reference books, CD-ROMs, and Websites from the years 2006-2009 written by academic, public, and school librarians or professionals in the field.ARBA differs significantly from other reviewing media in its basic purpose, which is to provide comprehensive coverage of English-language reference books published in the United States and Canada during a single year.

ARBA 2009 consists of 37 chapters, an author/title index, and a subject index. It is divided into four alphabetically arranged parts: General Reference Works, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Science and Technology. General Reference Works is subdivided by form: bibliography, biography, dictionaries and encyclopedias, government publications, handbooks and yearbooks, and so on. Within the remaining three parts, chapters are organized by topic. Thus, under Social Sciences the reader will find chapters titled Economics and Business, Education, History, Law, Sociology, and so on.

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This updated and expanded fourth edition of a popular reference book for teachers and librarians to use in planning interesting extension projects, holiday events to promote diversity, and cross-cultural understanding indexes 725 new books and features over 1,000 indexed projects. Indexes build on the previous three volumes. The book is indexed by subject and author and features indexes to educational games, crafts, activities, and more. It will be particularly useful to educators for use in the social studies curriculum, but also valuable to daycare providers and parents. Booklist and Appraisals and others favorably reviewed previous editions. Complete bibliographic information is given for all books indexed. Grades K-8.

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The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called ""direct reported speech""). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called ""mimesis"". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of ""canonical"" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound. ... Read more