A Manual of European Languages for Librarians

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Summary: Around Europe in one volume
Review: As a librarian, I have always found the online dictionaries for various languages unsatisfactory. The key words a cataloguer is searching for are either not covered at all or else have a different meaning in another context. And how many libraries have a run of foreign language dictionaries to cover everything from Hungarian to Welsh.
Faced with a large multi-lingual project, we were happy to discover this volume. Bibliographic terms are covered neatly under each language; words for volume, edition and so on are all there. There is also a glossary of common terms and sections on ordinal and cardinal numbers for each language. There is abit of grammatical information, which was perhaps not so relevant to our purposes. The only problem I would mention is that the languages are arranged linguistically not alphabetically. We overcame this by bookmarking the sections we found we were using most.
Heartily recommended.