所谓工具书,就是以特定的编排方式和检索方法,汇集某方面的基本知识或专供查阅资料线索的图书。美国学者 W·卡弗兹在其所著的《参考工作导论》一书中,将工具书按公用分为检索——控制类和资料类。前者包括书目、索引和文摘,后者包括辞书、年鉴和手册。本文就建筑类工具书按以上六种类别简要加以介绍。 The so-called reference book is a book that gathers basic knowledge of a certain aspect or is designed to look for information clues with a specific arrangement and retrieval method. American scholar W. Carfuz in his book “Introduction to Reference Work”, divided the reference book into the search-control class and the information class. The former includes bibliographies, indexes, and abstracts, while the latter includes dictionaries, yearbooks, and manuals. This article briefly introduces the construction of the reference book according to the above six categories.