Reviews for Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Media Centers 1986

The average rating for Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Media Centers 1986 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-03 00:00:00 Troy Parker At one point I questioned why I needed to know about CAT wiring. Like, really? This is for dummies! I'm not about to re-wire my apartment any time soon. But thanks for the thought.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-24 00:00:00 Fredericka Cobey I have been studiously avoiding Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, which is on the 1001 list. The members of the group reading that list here on Goodreads have a sort of love/hate reaction to it; one of the things most often mentioned against it is the writing style. I decided I could preview that style by reading some of the author's shorter fiction. The title story is the one I liked best. The language and style are poetic, and the story lends itself quite well in that direction. Bartleby, The Scrivener is said to be a story of loneliness. Benito Cereno started rather slow, but was a great adventure tale which I like best after The Piazza. the Lightning-Rod man was very short - an example (to me) of one's need to resist false sales pitches. The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, was not to my liking at all, and unfortunately, was the longest of the six stories. It might have done well in its time, but there are many documentaries now on the Galapagos, so that I was not unfamiliar with both the scenery and some of the stories. The Bell Tower was, well, different than stories I might pick up on my own. The GR description calls these short stories. I think that is half true. Half of them are what I would think of as short stories and the other half amble toward novella. I'm glad to have read them, but I didn't like them well enough to pick up Moby Dick. Perhaps some day, but that day won't be soon.