Kenneth Kister
Kenneth F. Kister (November 3, 1935 – September 21, 2022)
Career
As an academic Kister taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship".[2] As an author, he edited Kister's Best Encyclopedias and Kister's Best Dictionaries, and has written on the history of librarianship.
He was also the biographer of influential librarian and Library Journal editor, Eric Moon.
Encyclopedias
Kister in 1994 gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of
Kister's reviewing career was assessed by Simon Garfield in 2023 in his book on the history of encyclopedias, All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia. [4]
Books
- Kister's Atlas Buying Guide: General English-Language World Atlases Available in North America. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1984.
- Kister's Best Dictionaries for Adults & Young People: A Comparative Guide. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1992.
- Kister's Best Encyclopedias: A Comparative Guide to General and Specialized Encyclopedias, Second Edition. Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1994.
- "in-depth evaluations of 77 general encyclopedias, including electronic products; reviews of some 800 subject-specific encyclopedias (covering 29 subjects); and reviews of 44 foreign language encyclopedias covering nine languages."
- Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002.
- "..well written, impeccably documented, and extensively indexed. It should be in the collections of academic libraries throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, particularly those serving institutions with graduate programs in library and information science."[5]
- Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2007.
References
- ^ Kenneth Kister Obituary
- ^ a b http://lmri.ucsb.edu/pipermail/reformanet/2004-April/012158.html, available on Internet Archive : https://web.archive.org/web/20060919200833/http://lists.isber.ucsb.edu/pipermail/reformanet/2004-April/012158.html
- ISBN 0-89774-744-5.
- ^ Garfield, Simon. (2022). "Valedictory: Kenneth F. Kister," pp.287-290. In All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia. New York NY: William Morrow.
- ^ "ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries".