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THE Nationals Book League has recently issued a selected list of reference books intended for the general reader which has been compiled by W. A. Mumford, borough librarian of Cambridge, with the assistance of the borough librarians of Finchley, Folkestone and Hornsey (pp. 32. London: Cambridge University Press, 1949 ; ls.net). Although it omits very technical and specialized works and contains only eleven entries under “Science and Technology", some of which could be challenged, it should prove a useful desk tool to those in charge of works or small technical libraries who do not find A. D. Roberts's book essential. In arrangement the list follows generally the Dewey classification.
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List of Reference Books. Nature 164, 735 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164735c0
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