|
Kenneth F. Kister (born November 3, 1935) is an academic, professor of library science and authority in the field of reference and information sources.〔http://lmri.ucsb.edu/pipermail/reformanet/2004-April/012158.html, available on Internet Archive : http://web.archive.org/web/20060919200833/lists.isber.ucsb.edu/pipermail/reformanet/2004-April/012158.html〕 As an academic he taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship".〔 As an author, he edited ''Kister's Best Encyclopedias'' and ''Kister's Best Dictionaries'', and has written on the history of librarianship. He is also the biographer of influential librarian and editor Eric Moon. ==Encyclopedias== Kister in 1994 gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of ''Collier's Encyclopedia'' with two comparable encyclopaedias, ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' and the ''Encyclopedia Americana''. For the ''quantitative'' analysis, ten articles were selected at random (circumcision, Charles Drew, Galileo, Philip Glass, heart disease, IQ, panda bear, sexual harassment, Shroud of Turin and Uzbekistan) and letter grades (A–D, F) were awarded in four categories: coverage, accuracy, clarity, and recency. In all four categories and for all three encyclopaedias, the four average grades fell between B− and B+, chiefly because not one encyclopaedia had an article on sexual harassment in 1994. In the accuracy category, ''Collier's'' received one ''D'' and seven ''A''s. ''Encyclopedia Americana'' received eight ''A''s, and the ''Britannica'' received one ''D'' and eight ''A''s; thus, ''Collier's'' received an average score of 92% for accuracy to ''Americana 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenneth Kister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|