The purpose of this study is to improve the ability to select good encyclopedias by analyzing the evaluation points for print encyclopedias. For this purpose, it investigates S evaluating categories suggested in the related literatures, such as purpose & scope, authority, accessibility, writing style and characteristics & cost, and then draws and analyzes in detail the specific evaluation points under each categories. In the process of analysing special emphasis is placed on the theoretical appropriateness to each evaluating points, not simply suggesting another evaluation points.