Bibliographies
A BIBLIOGRAPHY is essentially a list of books. It can also include other kinds of information sources such as articles in
journals, magazines, and newspapers.
There are several different kinds of bibliographies:
- A. You're probably familiar with the kind of bibliography that you put at the back of a research paper in which you list all the
books you quoted from in the text of your paper.
- B. Encyclopedias and other books often have bibliographies at the end of them suggesting other books to read on the topic discussed.
- C. There are also whole books which contain nothing but a list of other sources of information on a particular topic.
- Examples:
These books are simply long lists of annotated citations which are basically short descriptions and critiques of books, articles,
and other sources of information.
For example:
- Lowe, Rachel. Beyond HTML New York; MacMillan, 2003.
- This book discusses several advanced techniques to create dynamic webpages such as CSS, XHTML, video,
audio, java, and flash animation. It explains why tags work the way they do, rather than just what they do.
This book is not for the beginner but for those who already have a strong knowledge of hmtl.
- Jenkins, Paul. Dynamic HTML Boston, MIT Press, 2004.
- This is a how-to book with step-by-step tutorials on creating webpages. Each chapter builds on the one before
showing you how to create a simple text-only webpage and then develop it into an interactive website with
video, audio, frames, and forms. There is an extensive reference section in the back with helpful appendices.
- McNamarra, Troy. Professional Webpage Design New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2001.
- This book is not about technical aspects of creating websites. Instead, it discusses webpage design from a
graphic design point of view. It shows how to make web sites more visually exciting and user-friendly.
Major topics are layout, and effective use of images, audio, video. It discusses several well-known
websites and discusses why they work or don't work. Includes interviews with many web-design pros.
To find bibliographies in the library catalog, do a keyword search combining a broad subject
with the word bibliography
This search works best if you truncate the word bibliograph$
- Example: science fiction and bibliograph$
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