Author: Henry Ormal SeverancePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333554170
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Excerpt from A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada, 1907 This Guide has been compiled to facilitate the work of the librarian in his selection, purchase and care of periodicals; to assist the bookseller and the subscription agent by placing before them in convenient form the cur rent periodical literature of the United States and Canada; to guide the private citizen in his choice of magazines for his home, his office, or his club. The business man wants to know what magazines cover the field in which he is especially interested and the prices at which they are published; the subscription agent is interested to know the names of periodicals and serials, publishers' addresses, and subscription prices; the librarian must have the whole information concerning periodical literature classified, in dexed, and conveniently accessible. Every librarian and subscription agent must be aware of the meagre information that we possess concerning our periodical literature. The English have Willing's Press Guide, the French their Annuaires des Journaux, the German their journal-katalog, but there is nothing published in this country which corresponds exactly to these foreign lists. Our newspaper annuals fill the place for which they are designed, and give information which up to the present time can not be found elsewhere; but they are not sufficiently comprehensive and their con tents are not conveniently arranged for ready reference. The material in this Guide is arranged first alphabetically by titles and secondly by subject matter. In the alphabetical arrangement the titles of periodicals and serials and the names of societies are arranged in one list by the first word of the title, not an article, or the name of the society. Bulletins, journals, proceedings, reports, and' transactions of societies are entered under the names of the societies. The aim has been to give the name of the publication, date of first issue, frequency of publication, the publisher's name and address and the subscription price. In the second part of the Guide, the material so far as possible has been. Arranged by subjects, but not having been able to examine all the periodicals personally the com piler craves indulgence for errors and omissions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.