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Aeronautical and Astronautical Resources of the Library of Congress
Ronald S. WilkinsonJohn F. BuydosWilliam J. Sittig
其他書名
A Comprehensive Guide
出版Library of Congress, 2007
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Cataloging & ClassificationReference / Bibliographies & IndexesTechnology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics
ISBN08444116049780844411606
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s5vwNnIRKZMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"This guide covers not only the Library's special collections in those fields--such as its manuscripts, photographs, rare books, and maps--but also the deep and broad holdings in what might be described as the Library's under-explored giant, its general collections. Here for the first time, then, is the result of a team effort in which skilled professionals made a title-by-title review of the Library's domestic and foreign book holdings in the specific subject, surveying the history of aeronautics and astronautics as evidenced in periodicals and serials, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and patents as well as standard monographs, abstracts and indexes, and society publications. For the Library's vast general collections in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics, this guide takes the researcher on an actual tour of holdings following the Library's internal organizing framework, its classification system. The guide also surveys the largest class in these fields (TL) by type of material, geographical location, and broad subject area ... Achieving its extremely ambitious goal of producing a comprehensive, annotated guide to the Library's holdings in aeronautics and astronautics has required time and effort. Just as the Library's unparalleled strength in aeronautics is the result of the fortunate confluence of individual initiatives, philanthropies, purchases, and inspired, aggressive collecting, so this extensive guide is the product of hard work and individual initiative. Although most guides to the holdings of a major collecting institution invariably prove useful to researchers, a guide that focuses on one important subject and which is researched and written by specialists who exhaustively examine those diverse holdings in light of that subject, must prove both invaluable and unusual. This work lives up to those high ideals."--Excerpted from Preface, pages 9-10.