Additions to the Library: May 22, 2012; Multivolume Reference Books

Title	Author	Call Number	ISBN or LCCN
Bob Schieffer’s America	Bob Schieffer	E839.5 .S29 2008	ISBN 9780399155185
Collapse of the Third Republic:  An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1949	William L. Shirer	DC396 .S48 1969	ISBN 0671203371
The Commanders	Bob Woodward	E881 .W66 1991	ISBN 0671413678
Contemporary Literary Criticism		Ref PN771 .C59 1985	See below
The Final Days	Bob Woodward	E861 .W66 1976	ISBN 0671222988
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Comprehensive Medical Assisting	Judy Kronenberger	R728.8 .H66 2011	ISBN 9781451100655
March of Democracy:  A History of the United States	James Truslow Adams	E178 .A285 1965	LCCN 38034425
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology:  An International Reference in Twenty Volumes Including an Index		Ref Q121 .M3 2002	The set’s ISBN is 0079136656;  individual volumes have their own ISBNs
Memmler's Structure and Function of the Human Body	Jason J. Taylor	QP36.M54 2013	ISBN 9781609139001
A Peace Denied:  The United States, Vietnam, and the Paris Agreement	Gareth Porter	DS559.7 .P67 1975	ISBN 0253161606
Thunder at Harper’s Ferry	Allan Keller	E451 .K4 1958	LCCN 58006817

This list includes:

1.    1  Several history books (with call numbers beginning with D or E)

2.    The 2011 edition of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ Comprehensive Medical Assisting; we previously had earlier editions

3.    Memmler’s Structure and Function of the Human Body, a book with transparencies that clearly show how the parts of the body work together; this book can be helpful for students in Anatomy and Physiology classes

4.    Two multivolume reference works:  Contemporary Literary Criticism and McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology:  An International Reference in Twenty Volumes Including an Index. 

The books in the last group are considered reference works because they include facts that can be looked up quickly.  Reference works include such sources dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and thesauri.  Reference works do not have to be books; they can be CDs, DVDs, or web pages.  In our library, reference books’ call numbers begin with REF.  These books cannot be checked out because readers can find information in them quickly and they have information that many library users may need.

Contemporary Literary Criticism is considered a periodical even though it is comprised of over 200 hardcover books.  People often think of periodicals as magazines, journals, and newspapers, but a periodical is anything that has a new volume or issue on a regular basis, whether every day like many newspapers or once every ten years.  Each volume of Contemporary Literary Criticism has its own LCCN and ISBN, and the entire series has the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 00913421.  Just as books have their own unique ISBNs, periodicals have unique ISSNs.

 Multivolume works can be organized in different ways.  The volumes of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology are organized alphabetically like many other encyclopedias.  For example, the first volume is about topics with names that would be alphabetized between AAR and ANO such as Anatomy. The last volume in this set, #20, is in index.  Look up a topic in the index to see which other volume of this encyclopedia has information on it.

Contemporary Literary Criticism’s organization is more complicated.  If you want to find criticism about a writer, use the index of one of the most recent volumes of the series.  You can tell how recent a volume is by its publication date; they are organized in our library from earliest to most recent.  The index will include the numbers of the volumes with articles about the writers.