This two part handbook introduces students to library sources in conjunction with their curriculum needs. Part 1, covering basic reference tools, is used in a library research skills unit of first semester freshman English classes. Students are introduced to the Dewey Decimal System; the card catalog; parts of a book and such reference sources as encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases, biographical dictionaries, The Reader's Guide, and audiovisual material. Part 2 covers specific subject reference works, briefly described, in the following major subject areas: Art and Music; History and Geography; Language, Rhetoric, and Speech; Literature; Drama and Shakespeare; Mass Media; Philosophy and Psychology; Religion, Mythology, and Folklore; Science and Technology; Social Sciences, Sport and Recreation. (NR)