Literature on American higher education has grown enormously. This volume is a guide to reference sources on higher education in America. The book contains entries for roughly 800 titles. Each entry includes a descriptive annotation. Included are books, monographs, government publications, and other reports. Entries are grouped in chapters according to type of reference work, such as bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and directories. Within each chapter, general works are listed first, followed by others arranged by more specific topics, such as administration, collective bargaining, and comparative education. While most of the works were published between 1970 and 1990, the volume includes works from 1861 to 1992. Author, title, and subject indexes add to the usefulness of this reference tool.
About the Author: PETER P. OLEVNIK is Head of Information Services at Drake Memorial Library, SUNY College, Brockport. His previous publications include The Financing of American Higher Education: A Bibliographic Handbook, (1984), guides to the use of research collection in microform, and selected reference works on higher education.
BETTY W. CHAN is Assistant Head of Information Services and Head of Government Documents at Drake Memorial Library, SUNY College, Brockport. Her publications include Sports and Physical Education: A Guide to the Reference Resources (Greenwood Press, 1983).
SARAH HAMMOND was an Assistant Librarian at Drake Memorial Library and is currently associated with the Zebra Mussel Information Clearinghouse (Sea-Grant Extension), SUNY College, Brockport.
GREGORY M. TOTH is a Reference Librarian at Drake Memorial Library, SUNY College, Brockport. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of English in the Virginia Community College System and a reference librarian and humanities bibliographer at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
