ABSTRACT
Dartmouth Medal An annual award by the AMERICAN LIBRARYASSOCIATION for the most outstanding REFERENCE WORK published during the preceding year.
data The raw material collected for the purpose of compiling a REFERENCE WORK. The type of data required is determined by the nature and scope of the work; thus the compilers of a new, large-scale dictionary may draw on a CORPUS of texts, supplemented by means of FIELDWORK interviews, while a smaller version is usually based on secondary SOURCES. CITATION FILE, DATABASE, INFORMATION. DANLEX Group 1987, Thompson 1992b.
