Handbooks and Tables in Science and Technology, 3rd Edition

(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

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The eagerly awaited third edition of this important resource provides a listing of over 3,600 scientific and technical handbooks in the hard sciences with over 650 new to this edition. All entries have complete bibliographic citations and most offer brief annotations that describe the content. Serving as both a research and collection development tool, Handbooks and Tables in Science and Technology, was created for users in science and engineering libraries, special and academic libraries, and public libraries with large sci-tech collections.

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.,."should prove to be an invaluable reference tool for all scientific libraries and major reference collections."-Library Science Update
...should prove to be an invaluable reference tool for all scientific libraries and major reference collections.-Library Science Update
A very useful reference guide and acquisitions tool for academic, special, and large public libraries.-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
Mr. Powell's book will unlock many valuable sources of information lining the shelves of the average science reference collection....Remarkably comprehensive and easy-to-use reference tool. It is also a valuable aid to collection development....highly recommended.-Medical Reference Services Quarterly
The work is of great value in assembling or expanding a reference collection to support science and engineering.... Primarily for large research libraries to assist in reference an collection development.-CHOICE
This book will be very useful to librarians and information officers, who will be able to check quickly if there is a handbook dealing with a specific subject.-The Chemical Engineer
This comprehensive title will be welcomed as both a buying and an information retrieval tool.-RQ
This is one of those remarkably usable books we hope to find when we go to the reference shelf at a research library and ask a question such as "Where do I begin to look for information on plastics"-ARBA
..."should prove to be an invaluable reference tool for all scientific libraries and major reference collections."-Library Science Update
"A very useful reference guide and acquisitions tool for academic, special, and large public libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"The work is of great value in assembling or expanding a reference collection to support science and engineering.... Primarily for large research libraries to assist in reference an collection development."-CHOICE
"This book will be very useful to librarians and information officers, who will be able to check quickly if there is a handbook dealing with a specific subject."-The Chemical Engineer
"This comprehensive title will be welcomed as both a buying and an information retrieval tool."-RQ
"This is one of those remarkably usable books we hope to find when we go to the reference shelf at a research library and ask a question such as "Where do I begin to look for information on plastics""-ARBA
"Mr. Powell's book will unlock many valuable sources of information lining the shelves of the average science reference collection....Remarkably comprehensive and easy-to-use reference tool. It is also a valuable aid to collection development....highly recommended."-Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Author Bio

RUSSELL H. POWELL is the head librarian of the Engineering Library at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. In 1966, he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh's library school with a specialization in scientific bibliography. After serving as science librarian at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, he moved to the University of Kentucky, where he has been for the past 25 years. During this time, he has written and edited several books, including Core List of Books and Journals in Science and Technology, coedited with James R. Powell and Handbooks and Tables in Science and Technology also published by Oryx Press.