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special featuresthe prestige of the encyclopaedias is enhanced by some of the unique features employed in the publication of encyclopaediasi most of
limitationsevery set of encyclopaedia has some limitations and the librarian must be vigilant about these limitationsin order to keep the size of
revisionit is difficult and costly venture to produce a really authoritative encyclopaedia they get out of date in a course of time due to dynamic
formatthe format of an encyclopaedia depends upon the physical make up of an encyclopaedia it refers to the i usual appearance ii presentation of
arrangementthe articles of the encyclopaedias are arranged either in alphabetical or classified order depending upon the nature and size of articles
treatmentreadability objectivity and style are the three important criteria of topics in encyclopaediasreadability the topics covered by the
scope and purposeeditors usually state the scope and purpose of the encyclopaedia in the preface and introduction after proper scanning the buyers
authoritythe authoritiveness of an encyclopaedia can be judged by the reputation of the editor consult-ants contributors who are responsible for
evaluation of encyclopaediasa good and useful collection of general and special encyclopaedias form the backbone for the reference work in any
special subject encyclopaediait is rather common for the reference librarian to receive queries regarding specific subjects the answer of such
regionalnational encyclopaedialibraries all over the world possesses english language encyclopaedias in non-english languages which are rich in
general encyclopaedia - english languagethe common uses of the non-english western language encyclopaedias can be summarised as underthe collection
uses of general encyclopaediageneral encyclopaedia is usually referred to get background information on any subject they are used to find out
uses of encyclopaediasin this section we will discuss various uses of these encyclopaedias an encyclopaedia is a store house of knowledge and
special or subject encyclopaediasthere used to be a limited number of subject encyclopaedias in 19th century but now there is encyclopaedias for
general encyclopaediasgeneral encyclopaedias cover all the existing branches of human knowledge they are most popular and extensively used reference
various types of encyclopaediasin the previous section we have surveyed the genesis and development of encyclopaedia as one of the most popular
definition and scope of encyclopediathe word encyclopaedia is derived from the greek word enkyklios paideia meaning general education it meant
international yearbooks - subjectunlike general yearbook of international scope a subject yearbook restricts itself to cover world wide development
international yearbooks - generalinternational yearbooks of a general nature are very handy authentic and reliable manuals of descriptive and
yearbooksyearbooks are also called as annuals as it is evident from the literal meaning of the term a yearbook is a serial publication issued every
informational almanacsinformational almanacs are basic general almanacs they depend heavily on government sources for statistical information they
astronomical almanacsevery country issues astronomical almanacs annually they give astronomical and astrological projections of coming
directoriesin this section we will introduce you to directories a directory is one more category of ready reference tool possessing rich information
professional directoriesthe past four decades have witnessed the growth of national international and local professional associations whereby