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Unit 8: Encyclopaedia

8.7 Review Questions Notes

1. Define the term encyclopaedia.
2. What is the need of having encyclopaedia?

3. Write down few characteristics of encyclopaedia.
4. Write the uses of encyclopaedia.
5. What are the major problems with encyclopaedia?
6. Explain the scope of encyclopaedia.
7. On what different basis encyclopaedias categorized?

8. What are the different types of encyclopaedias known to you?
9. What are general encyclopaedias?
10. What are special encyclopaedias?

11. Write down the history and development of encyclopaedia.
12. What is meant by format?
13. What are the past formats of encyclopaedias?
14. What are the recent formats of encyclopaedias?
15. What are the important advantages of online encyclopaedias?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Encyclopaedia 2. enkyklios paideia
3. index, cross-references 4. True
5. False 6. True
7. general, special. 8. subject

9. General 10. librarian
11. True 12. False
13. False 14. True
15. True

8.8 Further Readings

Books Cheney, F. N. and Williams W. J. (2000) Fundamental reference sources. Ed. 3. ALA,
Chicago.
Crawford, John. (2000) Evaluation of library and information services. ASLIB, London.
Farmer, L.S.J., Ed. (2007) The human side of reference and information services in academic
libraries: adding value in the digital world. Chandos Publishing, Oxford.
Fourie, D. and Dowell, D. (2002) Libraries in the information age. Libraries Unlimited,
New York.

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