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RR 2005/66 Dictionary for Library and Information Science Joan M. Reitz Libraries Unlimited Westport, CT and London 2004 x + 788 pp. ISBN 1 56308 162 9 (hbck); ISBN 1 59158 075 7 (pbck) $75 (hbck); $50 (pbck)
Keyword Library and information science, Dictionaries
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510580037
This dictionary is comprehensive in its coverage, claiming to define terms that professionals "might reasonably be expected to encounter . . . at some time in their career" (back cover). To this end it covers strictly professional terminology, for example in the sphere of cataloguing, and also fairly straightforward words like "charge" as applied to library use. Computer terminology is there and the inevitable obsolete words that might still...