2. BIBLIOGRAPHIES V. INDEXES
So what is the difference?
Indexes usually list what is within a work
A magazine index tells you what is within each
issue of a magazine
Bibliographies just point to the whole work.
List
of references at the end of your papers—
whole works (articles, websites, books, etc.)
3. WHAT ARE BIBLIOGRAPHIES?
If you are a book collector or deal with rare
books… read this
http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm
If you are just a journeyman librarian (like us)…
read this
―a list often with descriptive or critical notes of
writings relating to a particular subject, period, or
author‖ Merriam Webster online dictionary
―…A systematic list or enumeration of written works
by a specific author or on a given subject, or that
share one or more common characteristics
(language, form, period, place of publication, etc.).‖
ABC CLIO online dictionary of library science
CRITICAL THINKING: so is School Library Journal
an index or a bibliography? How about Titlewave?
TEL?
4. WHAT ARE INDEXES?
An alphabetically arranged list of headings consisting of the personal names,
places, and subjects treated in a written work, with page numbers to refer
the reader to the point in the text at which information pertaining to the heading
is found.
Online dictionary of library science http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_A.aspx
So….whatever you call it, you know it points to resources.
CRITICAL THINKING: Do you know that abstracting and indexing is a highly skilled art? There are
multiple semester courses in these two skills! Think about what you need to do to create an index for
an encyclopedia or to create abstracts for every professional paper in a festschrift.
―The American Society of Indexers was founded in 1968 and is an affiliate of the American Library
Association that seeks to promote indexing, abstracting, and database construction.‖
5. So a bibliography brings together many items on a
topic and usually gives a short summary on the
content (or a review)
Bibliographies help you find materials that are
connected by a common thread—wait! Don‘t indexes
do that too?
Yes, some indexes do.
Index is usually a bit less annotated than a
bibliography. Don‘t worry about the terminology at this
point. Just look at many of each and you will start to
see the differences between an index and a
bibliography.
6. ORIGIN OF BIBLIOGRAPHY ORIGIN OF INDEX
Etymology: < Etymology: < Latin index, indic-
Greek βιβλιογραϕία book-writing: em, plural indicēs
compare French bibliographie.
4. A list of the books of a particular †a. A table of contents prefixed to a book, a
author, printer, or country, or of those brief list or summary of the matters treated in
dealing with any particular theme; the it, an argument; also, a
literature of a subject. preface, prologue. Obs.
1814 T. H. HORNE Introd. Study
Bibliogr. I. II. iii. §4. 365 Professional, b. An alphabetical list, placed (usually) at the
or..special bibliography, has reference end of a book, of the names, subjects, etc.
only to one class of books, and occurring in it, with indication of the places in
comprehends every work published on which they occur.
the subject of which it treats... Special
bibliographies may be disposed either [1578 H. LYTE tr. R. Dodoens Niewe
alphabetically, or systematically. Herball (heading) Index Latinorum nominum.
1869 W. ROWLANDS (title) Cambrian 1578 H. LYTE tr. R. Dodoens Niewe
Bibliography.
1879 R. H. SHEPHERD (title) The Herball, Index appellationum et
Bibliography of Ruskin. nomenclaturarum omnium Stirpium [etc.].
1882 Nature 11 May 26/1 The 1578 H. LYTE tr. R. Dodoens Niewe
literature or bibliography of the species Herball, The Englishe Table conteyning the
of the Orthocerata. names and syrnames [etc.].]
1930 K. MALONE in English
Jrnl. 19 646 The term bibliography is 1580 A. FLEMING in Baret's Aluearie (rev. ed.)
also used, unhappily, I think, to mean Aaaa j, Which words, though expressed in
‗list of writings germane to a given topic‘. this Index, are notwithstanding omitted..in this
Aluearie.
from the OED online – so the word, ―Bibliography‖ was first used in 1814 and
―index‖ was first used in 1578
7. EXAMPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Subject bibliography
A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books
Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests
Book Links articles contain bibliographies that help you find books to
use with curriculum
General bibliographies are found in the DDC 016 class and in the
Z class of LOC
Subject bibs any are classed with the discipline and have a 016
somewhere in the class number
CRITICAL THINKING : What is the difference between and index and a
bibliography? The LCSH for A to Zoo is Picture books for children-Indexes.
The LCSH for Genreflecting is Fiction—Bibliography.
So is A to Zoo an index or a bibliography?
8. EXAMPLES OF INDEXES
Web of Science
Library Literature and Information Science
Reader‘s Guide to Periodicals
Ebscohost
9. ULRICH'S PERIODICALS DIRECTORY
Standard list of journals that real librarians use when
trying to find new periodicals or trying to find subscription
info or name changes. It is available through Walker
Library as of the Databases A-Z. Please take a look at a
few entries in that. What information do you find there?
everything! More than you understand.
Do you know what the Abstracting & Indexing Sources
area is telling you?
What the Title History, Demographics, Key Features
mean?
Terminology : 'cease', 'supercedes'.
Notice the Table of Contents on the left. It lists the
contents of each of the issues of the journal and links to
Walker‘s access to those!
10. MAGAZINES FOR LIBRARIES***
Cheryl LaGuardia editor with Bill and Linda
Sternberg Katz.
An annotated listing by subject of over 6,000
periodicals. Each entry gives name of periodical,
beginning publication date, publisher, editor,
address, price and such information as indexing,
size, and level of audience. Short abstracts describe
the scope, political slant, and other aspects of the
publication. Arrangement is topical, bringing
magazines and journals on like subjects together. To
find an individual title, use the title index at the end
of the volume.
***There is a Magazines for School Libraries, but it is seriously out of
date.
You can buy one for a penny from Amazon!
11. MAGAZINES FOR LIBRARIES EXCERPT FROM
THE ONLINE VERSION
International Journal of Learning and Media
Posted on: 27 Oct 2009
Reviewed by: Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard
University
IJLM‘s aim is to provide an international forum for practitioners, researchers, and
scholars ―to examine the changing relationships between learning and media
across a wide range of forms and settings.‖ The coverage is mostly about young
people (K-12), and the focus is (not surprisingly, coming from MIT) on new and
emerging media technologies, forms, and practices. Each issue includes
editorials, case studies, scholarly articles, and an active online
network, including the sections ―Keywords,‖ ―Missives,‖ ―Formulations &
Findings,‖ ―Knowing & Doing,‖ and ―News.‖ The impressive editorial board seeks
contributions addressing theoretical, textual, historical, and sociological
dimensions of media and learning, along with both practical and political issues
of these dimensions. Scholarly articles are peer reviewed, but the journal also
publishes ―topical and polemical writing, for visual and multimedia
presentations, and for online dialogues.‖ A hot new title, reasonably priced and
delivered online in the optimal format, this journal is strongly recommended for
school librarians, large public libraries, and academic libraries supporting
education programs
12. CITATION INDEXES
These index the citations in scholarly works. So if I write a paper
and my list of references cites the work of 5 authors, those
citations become the entries in the citation index.
It‘s just what the name says---an index to citations.
Why would one do this?? How would one use this?
In deep scholarly work, it is useful to know if a source has been used
by others.
If you find a seminal source, you can use the citation index to see
who else has used the source. Chances are that their work will be
useful for you as another source.
Just as you comb through the bibliographies of seminal sources, you
can see who else used the seminal source IN their bibligraphy.
Just think, if you use the seminal source, then your work will be in a
citation index!
CRITICAL THINKING:
KWOC and KWIC
indexes, what are
they?
14. LIBRARY LITERATURE AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Is an index to the body of library literature
EBSCO Publishing
Online (used to be in print before it was taken
over by EBSCO)
All libraries including K-12 schools, university
and college libraries, government institutions,
hospital and medical institutions and public
libraries.
15. Library Literature AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Search Gutenberg; here are
the hits.
Hit 1 is in a German
language journal
Hit 2 is a California
publication
Hit 3 is in Catholic Library
World (Journal)
