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Reference Services Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 7-14

  Henige, David ^a  

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EID: 0040232278     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb049110     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Thomas Forester, The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon trans by Henry of Huntington. (London, 1853), 199.
2. The latest title in the series has just appeared: Chris W. Ogbondah, The Press in Nigeria: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Greenwood, 1990). Although not nearly as bad as Obudho and Sarfoh, this work still is riddled with errors, inconsistencies, and contradictions of the kind that fledgling copy editors cut their teeth on, although apparently not at all presses.
3. David Henige, “Are Bibliographers Like Shortstops? Gresham's Law and Africana Bibliography,” History in Africa, 17 (1990): 157-69.
4. See as well my review of Sarfoh in African Economic History 17 (1988): 201-03.
5. Choice 23 (September 1985): 85-86. I prefer to withhold the names of the reviewers here; those interested may pursue the matter.
6. American Reference Books Annual 17 (1986): 328.
7. Reference Books Review 7, no. 1 (1985): 29.
8. Choice 25 (April 1988): 1224-25.
9. American Reference Books Annual 20 (1989): 45.
10. Africa Today 36, nos. 3-4 (1989): 134.
11. Choice 26 (June 1989): 1654.
12. American Reference Books Annual 21 (1990): 358.
13. Reference and Research Book News (April 1989): 16.
14. Choice 27 (November 1989): 456.
15. American Reference Books Annual 21 (1990): 358-59.
16. Choice 27 (December 1989): 603.
17. Africa Today 37, no. 1 (1990): 67-68.
18. D. L. Miller, reviewing William Eller, John Hladczuk, and Sharon Hladczuk, Literacy/Illiteracy in the World: A Bibliography (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), and Choice 27 (June 1990): 1656.