The Best Books for Academic Libraries

See Book News comments for volume 1 (0-7222-0011-0) for background on the BBfAL project. Volume 3, on language and literature (LC classification P through PZ), is the heftiest of the three volumes so far. Also, the type font is smaller than the first two volumes, and the pages have three, rather than two columns. Each page carries about 22-25 titles, for a total of approximately 18,000 titles. Arrangement is by LC classification and indexing is by author and title. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)