Purchasing an Encyclopedia: 12 Points to Consider

This guide to the selection and purchase of encyclopaedias for library, home and school discusses criteria for evaluating encyclopaedias and provides individual reviews of nine multi-volume encyclopaedia sets now on the market, including electronic encyclopaedias and encyclopaedias sold in retail stores. The first section of the booklet describes how to select an encyclopaedia for library or home. The second section provides critical reviews written by the editorial board of "Reference Books Bulletin" of the following sets: "Academic American Encyclopaedia", "Collier's Encyclopaedia", "Compton's Encylopaedia", "Encyclopaedia Americana", "Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopaedia", "New Book of Knowledge" "New Encyclopaedia Briticanna", "New Standard Encyclopaedia" and "World Book Encyclopaedia". This book should be a useful advisory tool for both reference and circulating collections.