Selected Reference Books of 1976-77

Selected Reference Books of 1953 - 1954

L K E T H E PRECEDING ARTICLES in this ' semi-annual series 1 this survey is based on notes written by members of the Re fer ence Staff of the Columbia University L i braries. A n innovation in this issue is the inclusion of a f e w titles in the sciences, annotations for which were written by assistants in the Columbia science libraries. Notes written by assistants and used unchanged are signe...

Selected Reference Books of 1958 - 1959 By CONSTANCE

LIKE T H E PRECEDING ARTICLES in this semiannual series1 this survey is based on notes written by members of the staff of the Columbia University Libraries. Notes written by assistants are signed with initials.2 As the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either wel...

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science 1976-77

Selected Books on Mentoring Women

Proceedings of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, Session 1976–77

Based on the speaker's book,' the following is a summary of her paper. The title of this talk comes from the inscription over the entrance to the ancient library at Alexandria which can be translated as "nourishment for the mind" or "medicine for the soul". The oldest surviving medical library in Scotland is that of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh founded in 1681, but there were me...