LESSON 3 - Book Reviews
The material you have found in the African American Encyclopedia seems perfect, and you would like to utilize a great deal of the information in your paper. Before making this research the cornerstone of your paper, however, you may want to see how the reference was reviewed by scholars.
Book Reviews
Where will you look? If your first thought is Book Review Digest or Book Review Index, bravo! If you need a review of the evaluation process, click on the link and review Evaluation of Resources (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?) now.
Book Review Digest and Book Review Index are standard reference sources which can be used (Remember use the index first) to identify reviews not only on the African American Encyclopedia but also on the many books suggested in the bibliographies.
Book Review Index leads you to a list of citations to articles in nine different journals which review the set, while Book Review Digest gives you substantial excerpts from four reviews. Book Review Digest is neat because you can get the gist of the reviews without going to the original source. The excerpts clearly indicate that this encyclopedia is a reliable and quality resource for your information.
Let's find a review of the African American Encyclopedia .
Many different book review sources now appear on the Internet. One electronic source for reviews is Books in Print with Book Reviews, but you can find other sources on the Internet for free. There are also other sources available through the library Electronic Resources, such as Literature Resource Center or the New York Times Book Review via Proquest Newspapers.
