Animals are the Issue: Library Resources on Animal Issues

by Katz; Linda S

• ISBN13: 9780789024886
• ISBN10: 0789024888
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317951629
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Supply your library with the best collection of resources on animal issues! Animals are the Issue: Library Resources on Animal Issues is a guide to books, journals, and Web sites on historic and modern animal treatment. Expert librarians and scholars provide helpful resources showing what ideals and practical solutions exist in animal rights and welfare debates. With this book, students, philosophers, and politicians can find the best of written and electronic resources about the protection and ethical use of animals by humankind. Animals are the Issue stands alone as a source for locating materials on animal protection and welfare. This valuable guide will help librarians save time and money in locating diverse areas of information regarding animal consumption and exploitation. The authors have noted what they consider to be the most essential resources for library collections. This book offers references that discuss the utilization of animals by humans: as companions in sports and entertainment in religion in science and education in industry in hunting Animals Are the Issue explores how animals are seen, viewed, and used by humans. With bibliographies, annotated lists, and short commentaries by the authors on nearly every item, you'll be able to supply your patrons with a highly effective animal rights/welfare collection.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
John M. Kistler
The Human-Companion Animal Bond	7	(18)
David C. Anderson
Animals in Sport and Entertainment	25	(12)
Helen Stoddart
Resources on Animals and the Law	37	(6)
Steven M. Wise
Animals in Religion: Resources for Libraries	43	(14)
John M. Kistler
Animals in Science and Education	57	(14)
Laura J. Bishop
Anita L. Nolen
Animals in Industry	71	(10)
Beth Roberts
Building a Library Collection on Ethical Vegetarianism	81	(12)
Kerry Walters
Sources for Animal Biodiversity	93	(18)
Margaret A. Mellinger
Endangered Species: Selected Resources for Libraries	111	(12)
Judith R.J. Johnson
Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: Historical Resources	123	(10)
Lois Fischer Black
Hunting, Animal Intelligence, and Other Works	133	(10)
John M. Kistler
Index	143