Hi All,
I was just curious what everyone's favorite reference book is and why. I'll start off.
Currently, my favorite reference resource is American Decades - Primary Sources. While browsing through the 70s volume, I learned about the impact of a magazine ad campaign and the Annie Hall fashion revolution.
It's also helpful with those history assignments that require primary sources for modern American history.
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I can pretty much just sit and read the World Almanac. So much random information.
In the science world, I like the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Pretty broad, but I really like the level it's written at.
I'm still in nerdy librarian awe of the Oxford English Dictionary. I recently looked up the word "widgets" It led me to "gadgets," which included this:
"1886 R. BROWN Spunyarn & Spindrift. Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken~fixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom..."
Yep, I'm the data/gov doc geek--my favorite is the Stat Abstract. I love that it can lead you to other sources because it cites this so well.
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