Robert L. Collison
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Professor of Library Science and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1968–73. Author of Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages and others.
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Encyclopaedia, reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner. For more than 2,000 years encyclopaedias have existed as summaries of extant scholarship in forms comprehensible to their readers. The word…
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