Guide to information sources
A Guide to information sources (or a bibliographic guide, a literature guide, a guide to reference materials, "how to find out about", a pathfinder, a subject gateway, etc.) is a kind of metabibliography. Ideally it is not just a listing og bibliographies, and reference works but more like a [textbook]] introducing users to the information sources in a given field (or in general).
Examples
Ostwald, W (1919). Die chemische Literatur und die Organisation der Wissenschaft. Leipzig : W. Ostwald & C. Drucker. (This is considered the first "guide to information sources").
Webb, W. H. et al. (Ed.). (1986). Sources of information in the social sciences. A Guide to the literature. 3. ed. Chicago : American Library Association.
Litterature
Bottle, R. T. (1997). Information science. I: Feather, J. & Sturges, P. (Eds.). International encyclopedia of library and information science. London & New York : Routledge. (pp. 212-214).
Vileno, L. (2007). From paper to electronic, the evolution of pathfinders: a review of the literature. Reference Services Review. 35(3), 434-451. Også tilgængelig 2009-08-16 fra: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?contentType=Article&Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2400350310.html