Study on Geographical Bibliography of the World

虽然许多国家已经出版了大量与地理及其邻近领域相关的书目，但由于对其类型和存在的不熟悉，其使用并不是很活跃。本研究的目的是通过对世界各地的地理书目进行调查、收集、分类和列举，以便于对已有的研究成果进行研究。为实现这一目标，首先调查了日本国立国会图书馆、美国国会图书馆、大英博物馆等国外主要图书馆的联合目录，并通过邮寄的方式收集了存放在国外主要大学的书目信息。结果，可以收集到大约2.3万本参考书目。然后，将这些书目按地理学分类，即系统地理学和地域性书目。此外，分类书目还被成功地细分为许多小组。编撰书目目录最困难的任务之一就是追寻连载材料，包括临时出版。这一困难通过对上述机构的直接询问得到解决。在1992年和1993年的两年间，作为本研究成果的一部分，出版了四卷名录，标题为《世界地理书目书目》。它们包括每个书目的作者或编者、出版年份、标题、出版商和周期。根据国会的规定，美国图书馆遵循上市格式。

Although a lot of bibliography related to geography and its adjacent fields have been published in many countries, its usage is not so vigorous because of unfamiliarization of its type and existence. The aim of this study is to facilitate to research on the existed study-outcomes through investigating, collecting, classifying and listing geographical bibliographies in the world. In order to accomplish this aim, firstly the union catalogs of major libraries in Japan and foreign countries such as National Diet Library, US Library of Congress and British Museum were investigated, and also bibliographical information deposited in major foreign universities was gathered by mailing method. As the result, about twenty-three thousand bibliographies could be collected. Then, these bibliographies were classified by two categories of geography, that is systematic and regional. In addition, the classified bibliographies were successibly subdivided into many small groups. One of the most difficult task in compiling the list of bibliography is to pursue the serial materials, including temporary publication. This difficulty was resolved by direct inquiry for the institutions mentioned above. During two years of 1992 and 1993, four volumes of list, as a part of this study result, were published under the title of "A world bibliography of geographical bibliographies". They include the author or compiler, published year, title, publisher, and periodicity of each bibliography. The listing format is followed by the US Library fo Congress's rule.