Building a Popular Science Library Collection for High School to Adult Learners: Issues and Recommen

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English Choose a language for shopping. Track your recent orders. View or change your orders in Your Account. See FREE shipping information. Return an item here's our Returns Policy. Visit our Help department. Included is the most exhaustive discussion available of how to evaluate works of popular science. Part Two, Subject Guides to Popular Information Resources, is an annotated bibliography of 2, recommended print and nonprint works in general science, astronomy and space sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, natural history, physics, and technology and applied science.

Each core entry contains a complete bibliographic citation, a word descriptive and evaluative annotation, and a list of review sources. Annotations consider the resource's level of relevance, scope, comprehensibility, and uniqueness, and compare resources, especially the ways in which they complement or contrast with one another.

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Additional recommended titles contain a brief annotation. Sapp, head of access services at the University of Miami Library, believes reading popular nonfiction is an important way for high-school students and adult learners to acquire knowledge about science.


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This book examines nearly 2, titles, about 70 percent of which have been published since The book is divided into two parts. The first consists of chapters discussing scientific literacy, science education, the history of scientific communication, and understanding and evaluating popular-science resources. These interesting essays should be useful to library science students and librarians new to collection development in the sciences.

The second and largest part of the book, the bibliography, has nine chapters surveying such subject fields as chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, natural history, and technology and applied science. Each chapter has sections for reference, autobiography, biography, history, and specific topics within the field. For example, in the astronomy chapter are headings for galaxies, handbooks for amateurs, planetary astronomy, prehistoric astronomy, etc.

All chapters and headings are arranged alphabetically to assist users.


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Books under a heading are arranged under core titles and "also recommended" titles. Core entries have complete bibliographic information, content notes, and annotations of 25 to 75 words. Both formats cite up to three evaluative reviews in such journals as Booklist , Choice , Nature , and Science. Periodical entries note publisher, frequency, and if it contains reviews.

Audiovisual entries give publisher, date, format, and citations to evaluative sources.

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Reviews are not cited, and there is no mention of equipment requirements. Three indexes assist users. The author and title indexes provide access to part 2 of the book; the subject index provides access to part 1.

Most comparable works emphasize reference materials rather than popular-science nonfiction. All three books are fairly current with citations to recent materials. A helpful tool in building a strong science collection. Sapp believes reading popular nonfiction is an important way for high-school students and adult learners to acquire knowledge about science. This book examines nearly 2, titles, about 70 percent of which have been published since Most comparable works emphasize reference materials rather than popular-science nonfiction.

Public and high-school libraries should consider [this book] for their collections. How often have you needed to recommend a resource for a patron on the spur of the moment?


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This is just the book you'll reach for to provide the support if the request is in the sciences. The superb organization of this book greatly facilitates the search process for the professional or the student and is friendly to the nonscience oriented reader.