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Evaluation of a Reference Work I'm so pleased to have the opportunity to look into the reference section of my Library-Learning Commons. It is abysmally evident that our reference section is minimal and outdated. Our print resources include a handful of dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases and topic-specific books. I chose one of our specific reference books to evaluate, "World Book looks at the Sea and Its Marvels ". The  content and information in this book is organized haphazardly.  There is no obvious way search the information, other than consulting the index for the animal you are searching. It has vague groupings of information into chapters. Some examples of chapters include, "Strange Sea Shapes", "Ocean Wanderers", and "Exploring the Reef". Although the title claims to explore the sea, there is no mention of tides or the way the moon affects the ocean. There are no mention of pollution, climate change, fishing or overfishing, oil s...

Library Land is a blog for all things bookish and literary! I love reading and discussing literature.  Here are some of the best books I have read, they have left lasting impressions, years after I put them down. It's hard to narrow the list, but here's the quick fiction version; War of the Worlds by H.G Wells All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Prince and the Pauper by Charles Dickens Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Memoirs of a Geish by Arthur Golden What are some of your favourite books?