| Sumario: | El proposito del repertorio Fuentes de Informacion de America Latina 1964-2008 es presentar una guia selectiva y anotada que facilite : 1) el conocimiento y el acceso a informacion general y especializada que se utiliza corrientemente en la investigacion y el estudio por parte de especialistas, profesores, estudiantes universitarios, bibliotecarios, especialistas en informacion y de toda persona que concurre a una biblioteca o centro de informacion para documentarse. 2) la identificacion de fuentes de informacion basicas que permitan el acceso a informacion sobre temas generales y especializados de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales y de las ciencias puras y aplicadas. 3) la identificacion y conocimiento de fuentes de informacion elaboradas y editadas (en forma impresa o en soporte electronico) a partir del ano 1964, en los principales paises y en los diversos idiomas de America Latina, de los Territorios del Mar Caribe, de Europa y, ademas, de las fuentes editadas en los Estados Unidos y en paises de otras regiones geograficas, que permiten el acceso a informacion que necesita y debe utilizar el investigador y el especialista de America Latina. The guide we are presently publishing represents a continuation and comprehensive up-to-date version of Obras de referencia de America Latina (Buenos Aires, 1965. xxiii, 280 p.) edited with the sponsorship of Unesco, on the basis of a favourable recommendation of its International Consulting Committee on Bibliography, Documentation and Terminology. The purpose of Fuentes de informacion de America Latina, 1964-2008 [Latin American Source, 1964-2008] (in 2 v.) is to provide a selective and annotated guide that can contribute to: 1- The knowledge and access to general and specialized information that is currently used in study and research by specialist, professors, university students, librarians, information specialists and any person who is seeking documentation. 2- The identification of basic information sources that provide an access to general and specialized subjects in the humanities and social sciences and in the pure and applied sciences. 3- The identification and knowledge of information source produced and published (in book form or in an electric format) since year 1964, in basic countries and in the diverse languages of Latin America and the Caribbean region and Europe, and sources published in the united State and countries of other geographic regions that provide and access to information that is needed and used by Latin American research and specialists. The guide we are presently includes over 15000 information sources of different types: encyclopedias, general and specialized dictionaries, general and specialized bibliographies, bibliographic catalogues, library catalogues, periodical catalogues and indexes, biographical dictionaries, guide, yearbooks, geographic atlases, indexes, data bases, etc.
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