James L. Harner

Name: Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies
Author: James L. Harner

Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

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“Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies”, published in 2017, is a work by James L. Harner. It explores elements such as bibliographies, coverage and indexes.

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ Like other Wilson indexes, Bibliographic Index offers generous subdivisions and cross-references for easy location of entries. Entries since 1982 can be searched through Bibliographic Index Plus (which also includes the full text of some 100,000 bibliographies) . The advanced search screen allows users to search by keyword, author, title, journal, document language, publisher, and a variety of other document fields. Especially valuable for its inclusion of parts of books, Bibliographic Index is the most current and thorough subject index to bibliographies. ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ A bibliography of national bibliographies that record current publications within a country. A typical annotation identifies scope, coverage, contents, cataloging rules and classification scheme, content of an entry, arrangement, indexing, predecessors, supplementary works, published guides, currency, print and electronic formats, current deposit laws, and selected scholarship. The extensive commentary under most countries offers a wealth of information about current and, in some cases, retrospective national bibliographies. ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ Organized by continent, then region, countries variously and inconsistently include divisions for a variety of reference works (e.g., historical overviews, bibliographies of bibliographies, guides to reference books, lists of auction catalogs, biographical dictionaries, lists of dissertations) besides the national bibliographies and trade lists (listed by initial year of coverage) . The annotations describe content, organization, and scope; cite cumulations or related works and scholarship; and occasionally offer an evaluative comment. ”

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“ Klostermann, 1959–88) , a bibliography of bibliographies (including books, essays in collections, and journal articles) published for the most part in German, English, Romance, and East European languages. Bibliographies are listed by author or title (for edited and anonymous works) in 18 divisions, most of them extensively classified: general; education; geography; history; information science, librarianship, and museums; the arts (including theater and film) ; agriculture; mathematics; medicine; natural sciences; language and literature; philosophy; psychology; law; religion ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ Bibliographies of Bibliographies Bibliographies of bibliographies are essential sources for identifying subject, title, genre, and author bibliographies; they are among the first resources a researcher consults when setting out to discover what has been written about a topic. ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ Although international in scope and covering all disciplines, the work emphasizes German authors. Under each writer is a list of bibliographies, including books, articles, and entries in a wide range of biographical dictionaries, handbooks, registers, and sections of other bibliographies of bibliographies published through the early 1980s. ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ Hiersemann, 1936; 572 pp.) indexes a few works omitted in the second edition. Although it is not comprehensive, the scope and coverage of foreign publications and collective works make Internationale Personalbibliographie an important complement to the other bibliographies of bibliographies in this section. Because of the nature of many of the collective works indexed, it is also a useful source for locating biographies and obituaries.
D165 Bewsey, Julia J. “Festschriften Bibliographies and Indexes.” Bulletin of Bibliography 42.4 (1985) : 193–202. ”

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James L. Harner, Literary Research Guide — Bibliographies of Bibliographies (2017)

“ An Assessment,” Journal of Librarianship 10.3 (1978) : 149–61.
The supplement uncritically reproduces, sometimes illegibly, about 18,000 Library of Congress catalog cards in a subject list without an index. ”

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