Youth Information Resources

[The] guide will be useful in large reference collections and in professional collections in school library media centers, medical centers, and youth services organizations. Reference Books Bulletin

"This guide to information resources on adolescents is an annotated bibliography of nearly 700 citations, along with an appendix listing addresses and telephone numbers for 225 youth-related clearinghouses and organizations. The guide also explains research strategies, characteristics of different types of information sources, and suggestions for using reference tools. The selective bibliography concentrates on resources about American and Candian youth and emphasizes authoritative sources that are widely available in libraries. This is an interdisciplinary work, listing sources dealing with topics as varied as religion, drugs, sports, and employment. [The author] has arranged the bibliography by format--e.g., dictionaries, bibliographies, directories, and periodicals... The guide has two indexes: an author, title, and organization index and a subject and format index. The bibliographic information in citations is complete. Prices are given, and a notation is made for out-of-print items. The annotations are more descriptive than evaluative. Sample entries from some abstracts and indexes are reproduced. The chapter on online databases provides annotations for vendors, including BRS, Dialog, and Wilsonline, and for bibliographic databases such as ERIC, Medline, and Mental Health Abstracts. The descriptions of the 61 databases include cost, years covered, and information about descriptors. A sample search result is reprinted for each database.... [The] guide will be useful in large reference collections and in professional collections in school library media centers, medical centers, and youth services organizations. This guide is valuable not only for its descriptive bibliography butespecially for its discussion of how to locate and apply a variety of resources."-Reference Books Bulletin, ?A cross-and multidisciplinary sourcebook.... Woodbury, an experienced reference librarian, administrator, and author, defines the book's age parameters as those transitional ones between childhood and adulthood: 13 to 19. Coverage is limited to the US and Canada. An overview chapter analyzes steps in the research process, explaining subject headings and thesauri; describes local, state, and federal sources; and previews material in subsequent chapters. These include more than 600 listings of printed items--e.g., abstracting and indexing services, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, library catalogs, serials, statistics, and surveys. Nonprint tools include more than 60 online databases and 250 clearinghouses and organizations. Education, family, health, law, physiology, psychology, sex, sports, vandalism, and violence are among the subjects treated. Citations are complete, including price, and annotations are evaluative as well as explanatory. Arrangement is alphabetical by title or name. There are two indexes: author/title organization and subject/format. Although other reference books include the data in this unique bibliography, the convenience of a single sources makes it invaluable.... Recommended for secondary school, public, and those academic libraries with strong social science collections.?-Choice, ?This guide to information resources on adolescents is an annotated bibliography of nearly 700 citations, along with an appendix listing addresses and telephone numbers for 225 youth-related clearinghouses and organizations. The guide also explains research strategies, characteristics of different types of information sources, and suggestions for using reference tools. The selective bibliography concentrates on resources about American and Candian youth and emphasizes authoritative sources that are widely available in libraries. This is an interdisciplinary work, listing sources dealing with topics as varied as religion, drugs, sports, and employment. [The author] has arranged the bibliography by format--e.g., dictionaries, bibliographies, directories, and periodicals... The guide has two indexes: an author, title, and organization index and a subject and format index. The bibliographic information in citations is complete. Prices are given, and a notation is made for out-of-print items. The annotations are more descriptive than evaluative. Sample entries from some abstracts and indexes are reproduced. The chapter on online databases provides annotations for vendors, including BRS, Dialog, and Wilsonline, and for bibliographic databases such as ERIC, Medline, and Mental Health Abstracts. The descriptions of the 61 databases include cost, years covered, and information about descriptors. A sample search result is reprinted for each database.... [The] guide will be useful in large reference collections and in professional collections in school library media centers, medical centers, and youth services organizations. This guide is valuable not only for its descriptive bibliography butespecially for its discussion of how to locate and apply a variety of resources.?-Reference Books Bulletin, "A cross-and multidisciplinary sourcebook.... Woodbury, an experienced reference librarian, administrator, and author, defines the book's age parameters as those transitional ones between childhood and adulthood: 13 to 19. Coverage is limited to the US and Canada. An overview chapter analyzes steps in the research process, explaining subject headings and thesauri; describes local, state, and federal sources; and previews material in subsequent chapters. These include more than 600 listings of printed items--e.g., abstracting and indexing services, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, library catalogs, serials, statistics, and surveys. Nonprint tools include more than 60 online databases and 250 clearinghouses and organizations. Education, family, health, law, physiology, psychology, sex, sports, vandalism, and violence are among the subjects treated. Citations are complete, including price, and annotations are evaluative as well as explanatory. Arrangement is alphabetical by title or name. There are two indexes: author/title organization and subject/format. Although other reference books include the data in this unique bibliography, the convenience of a single sources makes it invaluable.... Recommended for secondary school, public, and those academic libraries with strong social science collections."-Choice

MARDA WOODBURY is Library Director at the Life Chiropractic College-West and a part time writer-researcher.