Reference Services Review: Volume 15 Issue 3

The Oregon Public Access Catalog Project

Alice J. Tallmadge

When former Assistant Oregon State Librarian (now Iowa State Librarian) Shirley George talked about the Oregon State Library's pioneering OPAC system, she began with a story about…

The Online Information System at Georgia Tech

Julia Zimmerman

The catalog of a library's collection is the focal point of most major automated systems. It is certainly an essential tool, but it helps the user find monographs and journals…

ACCESS: A Community Information Service

Jim Wavada

The ACCESS Community Information Service in Spokane, Washington, has been a cooperative project of the Spokane Public Library municipal system and the Spokane County Library…

InfoBase:BibSrch A Bibliographic DBMS for Self‐Service Catalogs

Durward Lee Power

InfoBaserBibSrch (originally called BibSrch) began as a hobby and has turned into a vocation. In developing the product, there was no sponsor to whom to answer. No one's…

The Information Access Company's Editorial System

Delores Meglio

With such venerable institutions as Burroughs Corporation, Sperry Corporation, and U.S. Steel disappearing from the world business scene as the result of mergers and name changes…

Electronic Versus Printed Access to Reference Tools: Two Approaches

Rosemary Loomis, Joe Jaros, Kathy Jackson, Charles Gilreath

Reference tools are prime candidates for replacement with their electronic counterparts, since finding the desired information in the shortest possible time and with the least…

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

John Budd

What hath Harvey wrought? In 1932 Sir Paul Harvey edited the first version of this “useful companion to ordinary everyday readers of English literature” (Harvey 1932, p.v). Harvey…

Women: The Entrepreneurs of the 1980s

Marion Joos

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed a task force to study the problems of women entrepreneurs; the report subsequently issued recommended that government programs be…

A Primer on Federal Income Tax Service

Aubrey W. Kendrick

A subject that often causes trouble for reference librarians is federal income tax research and the use of tax services. This article describes the sources of federal income tax…

History—Periodicals—Directories

David Everett

According to the introduction, this five volume set is intended to update Eric H. Boehm and Lalit Adolphus's Historical Periodicals: An Annotated World List of Historical and…

Reference Service as a Guide in Public Library Organization

T.D. Webb

Given its importance in library operations and in the profession, reference service should be an important consideration in any library reorganization, regardless of the other…