Reference Services Review: Volume 10 Issue 1

A Layman's Guide to Personal Computing

John Adams, Robin Adams

Today an estimated 500,000 personal computers have been purchased by Americans who use them at home and in a variety of small business applications. (Note: We define a personal…

Reference Sources in Nutrition

Miriam Pollet

Nutrition is one of the most important environmental factors affecting health and disease. Nutrition can be considered from several overlapping and mutually dependent points of…

The Gale Biography Series

Bruce Bonta, Frances Cable

Historical Background and Purpose of the Article Our civilization has always had a fascination with the lives of important people. Individuals who inspire us through their…

Stalking the Private Company: How Good Is Dun and Bradstreet's Third Volume?

Elizabeth J. Wood

For years, stalking the elusive private company was at least as hard as stalking the wild asparagus. Not constrained by the Securities and Exchange Commission or by state “blue…

Reference Resources

Richard E. Bopp, Judyth Lessee

[1981 was proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Year of Disabled Persons. With the theme “Full Participation and Equality,” the IYDP sought both to promote total…

A Review of the Costs and Cost‐Effectiveness of Online Bibliographic Searching

Jean E. Koch

The following paper discusses the costs involved when a library adds online bibliographic searching to the services it offers to its patrons. Reviewed in the study are total…

Association for the Bibliography of History

Ruth Clinefelter

The Association for the Bibliography of History is an organization composed of librarians, historians, bibliographers, and others who are interested in promoting the development…

Marketing Libraries and Information Services: An Annotated Guide to the Literature

O. Gene Norman

In this article, I have traced the literature of marketing libraries and information services from 1970 to the present. This period immediately follows Kotler and Levy's…