Reference book reviewing

Abstract

Before January 1938, no major journal in any of the three disciplines most concerned—English, Education, Library—had a department regularly devoted to Reference Book Review. Only those of us dedicated to the practice and teaching of Reference can experience the exhilaration of having, at last, not only a department, but an entire journal committed to Reference Book Reviewing, as is RSR. This editorial begins with a salute to the founders of Reference Services Review, continues with a condensed chronicle of a four‐decade crusade for the recognition of a Literature of Reference; and concludes with a statement on the art and science of Reference Literary Criticism today.

Citation

Shores, L. (1973), "Reference book reviewing", Reference Services Review, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048496