HOW AND WHERE TO READ FOR MORE

INFORMATION

Practically every subject that is interesting enough to be a good subject for debate has been written about by other people. Every good library contains the books on the following list, and with a little experience the student can handle them easily. A general treatment of every important subject can be found in any of the following encyclopedias: Americana, New International, Twentieth Century, Britannica.

Everything that has been written upon every subject in all general, technical, and school magazines, can be found by looking up the desired topic in: The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, or Poole’s Index.

If the matter being studied deals with civics, economics, or sociology, look in: Bliss, Encyclopædia of Social Reform, etc.; Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, etc.; Larned, History of Ready Reference and Topical Reading; Bowker and lies, Reader’s Guide in Economics, etc.

What Congress is doing and has done is often important. This can be found in full in: The Congressional Record.

Jones’s Finding List tells where to look for any topic in various government publications.

In studying many subjects the need of definite and reliable statistics will be felt. These may be found on almost any question in the following publications: Statesman’s Yearbook, Whitaker’s Almanac, World Almanac, Chicago Daily News Almanac, Hazell’s Almanac, U.S. Census Reports.

Never consider your reading completed until you have looked for any special book that may be written upon your subject in the Card Catalogue of your Library.

Make out a Bibliography or Reading List (as illustrated briefly in Appendix V) before you proceed to actual reading.