Abstract
THE Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, 16 Russell Square, London, W.C.I, has recently issued a book list which is the first of a series of quarterly recommendations of recently published scientific and technical books (105. 6d. a year for non-members). The main object of the list is to provide public and other libraries with a selected list of recent scientific and technical books, and the list has been compiled with the assistance of more than sixty specialist organisations which are able to assess the relative merits of new publications in their own fields. Only books in the English language, and, with few exceptions, those published in the last six months, have been included. No attempt has been made to introduce detailed classification, the books being listed under broad main headings, such as General Science and Technology; Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Physics; Metallurgy; Medicine, Public Health and Nutrition; Communications and Transport, etc. The books are further sub-divided into those suitable for general readers, books of an intermediate character or suitable as textbooks for students, advanced or highly technical books, and dictionaries, directories or encyclopaedias and the like. The lists should thus be of real value to specialist, as well as to public, librarians, in dealing with the difficult problem of book selection, particularly in fields of which the librarian himself has no special knowledge.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Quarterly List of Scientific Books. Nature 136, 829 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136829b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136829b0