"...as basic to libraries as shelves."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. "There is no excuse for any library lacking this one."--RQ. Indexing the over 1 million nonfiction titles from BOOKS IN PRINT under more than 77,000 Library of Congress subject headings, this indispensable tool helps you & your patrons find the latest books on everything from gentrification to immunodiagnosis. And the 1995-96 edition brings you: * a stand-alone Subject Thesaurus - listing & cross-referencing all headings from the SUBJECT GUIDE. * the same authoritative bibliographic, ordering & publisher information found in BOOKS IN PRINT. * informative Publisher Provided Annotations. When you need the most trusted research & collection development aid in the book industry, turn to SUBJECT GUIDE TO BOOKS IN PRINT.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

From its first edition the purpose of Walford has been to identify and evaluate the widest possible range of reference materials. No rigid definition of reference is applied. In addition to the expected bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and directories, a number of important textbooks and manuals of general practice are included. While the majority of the items are books, Walford is a guide to reference material. Thus periodical articles, microforms, online and CD-ROM sources are all represented. In this volume a particular effort has been made to improve coverage of the latter two categories.

"An index to library and information science".