Encyclopedia:

Usually refers to a large set of books.

This word originated from the western Greek ε γ κ? κλιο? (Latin alphabet: enkyklios) and π α ι δ ε? α (Pattaya). Enkyklios means "cyclical, periodic and normal", and paideia means "education". Literally speaking, general education is the art and scientific knowledge that a person who wants to receive general education should learn. In the process of copying, it was mistakenly transmitted as a new Latin word encyclopaedia, and then entered English, which was first recorded in 153 1. In the new Latin, this word was chosen as the title of a reference book covering all subjects. It first appeared in Britain in 1644.

The definition of China Encyclopedia of Press and Publication is: "A reference book that briefly introduces all kinds of human knowledge or a certain kind of knowledge.

Yearbook is an informative reference book with the main content of comprehensively, systematically and accurately describing the movement and development of things in the previous year. Collect important current events, documents and statistical data within one year, and publish reference books continuously every year. It absorbs the wisdom of all others and integrates dictionaries, handbooks, chronologies, catalogues, bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, tables, statistics, guides and sketches. It has the characteristics of authoritative information, timely response, continuous release and complete functions. It is an information-intensive reference book with the characteristics of large amount of information, timely reflection and continuous publication. The main function is to provide people with comprehensive, true and systematic factual information within one year, so as to understand the present situation and research and development trend of things. The materials it collected mainly came from the government gazette of that year, reports from important national newspapers and data from statistical departments. Therefore, the yearbook has great summary, statistical significance and systematic continuous reference function. Through the yearbook, we can find the international and domestic current affairs, the progress of various departments and industries, and the research trends of various disciplines and professions in recent years; You can find important laws and regulations promulgated by the government and comparable statistical data year by year; You can also find "Organization Profile", "Enterprise Directory", biographies of famous people and some practical guidance materials.

Yearbook:

It is mainly written by several authors organized by the compiling unit according to the topic selection plan, and a small amount of content comes from the government gazette of that year and other important documents and data provided by the statistical department. In the selection of materials, a comprehensive, objective and correct system is needed, as well as concentration and refinement. In compiling structure, reasonable layout and stable foundation frame are required. Its permanent columns include: documents (including documents and regulations), general situation, selected works and abstracts, memorabilia, debate sets, statistical data, charts, institutional introductions, appendices, etc.

Yearbooks can be roughly divided into two categories: comprehensive yearbooks and professional yearbooks. The former includes encyclopedia yearbook and statistical yearbook. The latter are economic yearbook, historical yearbook, literary yearbook, publishing yearbook, etc.

The yearbook of our country has a history of more than 600 years. The History of Song Dynasty has a volume of yearbook, which was written in the forties of 14, but it has been lost.

Before liberation, China published some comprehensive yearbooks (such as China Yearbook, World Yearbook and Declaration Yearbook), local yearbooks (such as Shanghai Yearbook and Taiwan Province Yearbook) and professional yearbooks (such as China Economic Yearbook and China Film Yearbook). Among them, China Yearbook was published by the Commercial Press 1924, which is a comprehensive yearbook in contemporary publishing history.

The great development of yearbook publishing in China was in the 1980s. China Encyclopedia Yearbook, China Publishing Yearbook and World Economic Yearbook were first broken 1980. At 198 1, there was a "yearbook fever", and the types of yearbooks soared to more than 20.

Scholars have different views on what kinds or types of reference books there are.

In fact, according to different standards, we can make different classifications:

If China is taken as the standard, it can be divided into China reference books and foreign reference books;

Based on the times, it can be divided into ancient reference books and modern reference books;

According to the purpose, it can be divided into retrieval reference books, reference reference books and so on.

According to the content and form, with reference to Miscellaneous Notes of Reference Books edited by He Duoyuan, Reference Books of China edited by Li Guoxin and Introduction to Reference Books of China edited by Zhan Deyou, reference books can be divided into the following categories:

1, dictionary, dictionary

2. Bibliography and index

3. Yearbooks and manuals

4, books, political books

5, encyclopedia, compilation

6, table spectrum, directory (omitted later)

Now according to the above classification, the reference books are expounded respectively. Mainly based on China and contemporary reference books.