Answered By: Skylar Brown
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2021     Views: 30

Professional Review Reference Resources Down Below:

 

  1. Start at the Library Home Page: Lamson Library
  2. SelectNonfiction Core Collection
  3. Scroll down to the “Publication Type” limiter and select review
  4. Type “Reference” into the search box and select “Search”
  5. You should get more than 1,000 resultsYou can be more specific in your searching by replacing "reference" with e.g. "dictionary."

 

The content of much of Kirkus Reviews is available from their website: https://www.kirkusreviews.com 

 

Much of School Library Journal is also available online: 

There are also excellent websites to assist with collection development:

This site is particularly useful:

This will provide average book prices (but reference books are usually at the high end of any price spectrum): 

I suspect you've already looked at school standards: 

 

These standard sources (recommendations from ALA);