REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 25, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today launched Encarta® Reference Library 2002, the latest and most comprehensive resource from Encarta, the best-selling reference brand worldwide and ...

REDMOND, Wash., June 27, 2002 — Building on its ranking as the No. 1 best-selling encyclopedia brand,* Microsoft Corp. today launched Encarta® Reference Library 2003, offering innovative homework ...

New this year in our perennial favorite encyclopedia software is content for a younger crowd, ages 7 to 12. Encarta Kids offers narrated slide shows, word and category search, and fun elements like ...

A generation or two ago, encyclopedia salesmen would scour neighborhoods, knocking on doors in search of parents willing to part with several months' pay to help ensure the educational success of ...

Back in the days when he worked on print encyclopedias, Gary Alt and his colleagues would toil all year on the new edition and send it off to the printer. But months would then pass before readers saw ...

New elements this year include Discovery Channel videos, expanded literature guides and improved curriculum guides, and a more dynamic, context-sensitive time line. These supplement the rich, ...

A generation or two ago, encyclopedia salesmen would scour neighborhoods, knocking on doors in search of parents willing to part with several months’ pay to help ensure the educational success of ...

Review by: Steven DeBry, John V. Richardson Jr. Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Library Quarterly (LQ) embraces a wide array of original research ...

When I was a kid, I relied for school research on something called the Universal Standard Encyclopedia, a set of official-looking books my grandmother bought, one volume a week, at the supermarket.