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For Immediate Release
February 6, 2007
 

RUSA announces the list of 2007 Outstanding Reference Sources

 

SEATTLE—The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to announce the 2007 list of Outstanding Reference Sources for small and medium-sized libraries.  The titles were selected by the Reference Sources Committee of RUSA to represent high-quality reference works that are suitable for small to medium-sized libraries.

 

The annotated list will appear in the May 2007 issue of American Libraries and will also be available on the RUSA Web page at www.ala.org/rusa/.

 

The Selections for Year 2007 are:

 

•     “Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History.” ed. James Ciment. M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 0765680653. $499

•     “Crusades: An Encyclopedia.” 4 vols. ed. Alan V. Murray. ABC-Clio, 2006. 1576078620. $385

•     “Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World.” Geoffrey Hughes. M. E. Sharpe, 2006. 0765612311. $110

•     “The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History.” eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard Ryerson, Kirk Werner (Editor), Andrew McCormick (Editor). ABC-Clio, 2006. 1851094083. $485

•     “Encyclopedia of the Developing World.” 3 vols. ed. Thomas M. Leonard. Routledge, 2005. 1579583881. $565

•     “Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History.” 3 vols. ed. Eric Arnesen. Routledge, 2006. 0415968267. $565

•     “Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450.” 3 vols. ed. Thomas Benjamin. MacMillian, 2007. 0028658434. $395

•     “Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America.” 3 vols. ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller. Indiana University Press, 2006. 0253346851. $325

•     “Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present.” 5 vols. eds. Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, et al. Cambridge, 2006. 0521817919. $825

•     “Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America.” Stephen A. Marshall. Firefly Books, 2006. 1552979008. $95

•     “The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.” 5 vols. ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. 0195169212. $595

•     “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.” 4 vols. ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. 0195146565. $495

•     “The Qu'ran: An Encyclopedia.” ed. Oliver Leaman. Routledge, 2005. 0415326397. $225

•     “Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage.” Ed. Mark Davidson. W. W. Norton, 2005. 0393061191. $29.95

 

For further information contact the chair of the Reference Sources Committee:

Jeff Schwartz, Reference Librarian, Santa Monica Public Library, jeff.schwartz@smgov.net.

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