Index to Literary Criticism for Young Adults

Give your patrons easy access to critical information on authors from Swift to Springsteen by utilizing this one index, which permits them to find needed data without a lot of trial and error as they search a number of sources. The busy librarian also saves time, since there is only one reference tool to explain rather than several. Sources cited are large standard works and well-known series, rather than single-volume, obscure, sometimes out-of-print books. The use of abbreviated titles rather than meaningless initials, which require constant flipping back and forth to the front of the book, makes this an extremely usable tool for the beginning researcher.

Nancy E. Shields is a high school library media specialist. She is coauthor of Where Credit Is Due: A Guide to Proper Citing of Sources—Print and Nonprint (Scarecrow, 1985).