Reference Services Review: Volume 15 Issue 2

Night of the Living Dead Books

William Miller

A Saturday night of intellectual debauchery—flipping through People magazine issues and simultaneously conducting an ongoing multichannel search for bearable moments in a host of…

OPTEXT: Government Publications on CD‐ROM

John Price‐Wilkin

Video Laser Systems's (VLS) OPTEXT is, in many ways, a harbinger of things to come. It is one of the first products to use the High Sierra Group's standard for the compact disk…

Murder, She Wrote: A Survey of Women Mystery Writers

Beverly D. Bishop

Twenty years before Sherlock Holmes donned his deerstalker and informed Watson that “the game's a‐foot!” an American woman, Seely Regester, pub‐lished a mystery entitled The Dead…

Sources of (A) First (Class) Resort

James Rettig

All seventeen had graciously agreed to my proposal to gather for a small conference to seek consensus. A generous grant from the Pierian Press Foundation would cover all of our…

Reference Sources and Services: Four Current Issues

William Fisher, Dorothy Ingebretsen, Teresa Portilla, Marie Waters

As information professionals, reference librarians are well aware of the importance of keeping up not only with the volume of professional reading that crosses their desks, but…

Architectural History: A Core Collection

Christine Whittington

This guide attempts to identify those items that should form the foundation of any collection of reference tools on architectural history and upon which more specialized…

Photography: A Survey of New Reference Sources

Eleanor S. Block

What a difference a few years make! In the fall 1982 issue of Reference Services Review I described forty reference monographs and serial publications on photography. That article…

American History Reference Sources, 1985

Carol Burroughs, Gary D. Barber

This, the ninth annual survey of American history reference sources, comprises reviews of twenty 1985 imprints. The largest categories are bibliographies and encyclopedias (in…

Library Orientation and Instruction — 1986

Hannelore B. Rader

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with orientation to library facilities and services, instruction in the use of information resources, and research and…

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: A Resource Guide

Pam M. Baxter

Medical and mental health professionals are in general agreement that the occurrence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia has increased dramatically during the past ten years. The…

Comparison of Meeting Indexes

Katherine M. Whitley

Conferences, symposiums, and other meetings offer the promise of current information in changing fields, but it is sometimes difficult to learn when and where they will take…

Researching Rock n' Roll: A Guide to Reference Sources

Paul Feehan

The history of rock n' roll music as a distinctive form is usually traced to the mid‐1950s with the emerging popularity of Bill Haley and the Comets and Elvis Presley. A decade…