Kenneth Kister
Encyclopedia
Kenneth F. Kister is an academic, professor of library science
and authority in the field of reference and information sources.
As an academic he taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship". As an author, he edited Kister's Best Encyclopedias and Kister's Best Dictionaries, and has written on the history of librarianship.
He is also the biographer of influential librarian and editor Eric Moon
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Library science
Library science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the...
and authority in the field of reference and information sources.
As an academic he taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship". As an author, he edited Kister's Best Encyclopedias and Kister's Best Dictionaries, and has written on the history of librarianship.
He is also the biographer of influential librarian and editor Eric Moon
Eric Moon
Eric Edward Moon is a librarian and editor who had a shaping influence on American librarianship in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s as editor-in-chief of Library Journal, as President of the American Library Association, and as chief editor at Scarecrow Press...
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Books
- Kister's Atlas Buying Guide: General English-Language World Atlases Available in North America. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1984.
- Kister's Best Dictionaries for Adults & Young People: A Comparative Guide. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1992.
- Kister's Best Encyclopedias: A Comparative Guide to General and Specialized Encyclopedias, Second Edition. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1994.
- "in-depth evaluations of 77 general encyclopedias, including electronic products; reviews of some 800 subject-specific encyclopedias (covering 29 subjects); and reviews of 44 foreign language encyclopedias covering nine languageLanguageLanguage may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
s."- Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002.
- "..well written, impeccably documented, and extensively indexed. It should be in the collections of academic libraries throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, particularly those serving institutions with graduate programs in library and information science."
- Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2007.