Reference Services Review: Volume 16 Issue 1/2
Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age
Table of contents
Expanding Networks: Reference Services for MRDF
Ray Jones, Colleen SealeMachine‐readable data files (MRDF) are now a basic part of the information revolution. Reference librarians can learn to play a major role in disseminating information about MRDF…
The National Archives and Electronic Data
Edie Hedlin, Donald F. HarrisonThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), located in Washington, DC, is the final repository for records of the federal government. NARA's holdings span 200 years…
Computer Information Products at NTIS
Stuart M. WeismanThe National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an organizational entity of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is an unusual federal agency. A relatively small government…
National Archives of Canada: Machine‐Readable Records Program
Katharine GavrelIn the fall of 1973 the Public Archives of Canada, now known as the National Archives of Canada, established the first Canadian program within a traditional archival institution…
Meeting the Challenge of Machine‐Readable Records: A State Archives Perspective
Margaret Hedstrom, Alan KowlowitzState government archivists confront special problems in selecting and making available machine‐readable records with enduring research value. Today no more than half a dozen…
The Roper Center: The World's Largest Archive of Survey Data
John M. BarryIn 1986 The Roper Center celebrated its fortieth year as the largest archive of survey data in the world. It was, in fact, 1946 when Elmo Roper founded the center at Williams…
Microcomputer‐based Access to Machine‐readable Numeric Databases
Patrick WenzelThe Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) supports the research needs of the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. Although our primary charge is…
Microcomputer Database Management Systems That Interface with Online Public Access Catalogs
James RiceSince they started to appear in the 1970s, online public access catalogs (OPACs) have developed in sophistication and increased greatly in number. Yet most experts on the subject…
REFSIM: A Bimodal Knowledge‐based Reference Training and Consultation System
James R. ParrottReference departments across North America have been struggling in recent years with a “reference crisis.” This crisis is characterized by too much demand for service, too many…
SLIMMER—A UNIX™ System‐Based Information Retrieval System
Robert K. WaldsteinSLIMMER is a powerful information retrieval system running under the UNIX operating system. Its development was guided by the needs of the library network operated by Bell…
Implementing an Optical Disk System for Adult Education Manuscripts
George L. AbbottIn the fall of 1986, Syracuse University received a 3.7 million dollar grant from the Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Michigan) to further enhance its noted graduate program in…
Origins of Systematic Serials Control: Remembering Carolyn Ulrich
Charles D. PattersonThe January 1987 issue of Access, a quarterly update from R.R. Bowker Company, contains a brief article entitled “Ulrich's: A Prime Source in Any Format.” This short piece tells…
BI, Reference, and the Teaching/Learning Process
Mary L. GriffinMuch has been written about the position of the library within the academic community. Perhaps the most frequently heard statements on the subject are the glowing accounts found…
The Fugitive Literature of Acid Rain: Making Use of Nonconventional Information Sources in a Vertical File
Susan L. Lovenburg, Frederick W. StossAcid rain was a little‐known issue ten to fifteen years ago. Only a relatively small group of scientists seeking an explanation for the changes they observed in the environment…
Contemporary issues bibliographies
Joan BermanSerially published bibliographies raise a number of issues across all areas of library operations and generate a bewildering array of policies, procedures, and problems. Initially…
Teaching Research Skills Using Video: An Undergraduate Library Approach
Jean SmithTechnology can be both the bane and the boon of bibliographic instruction librarians. While none of us would hesitate to extol the virtues of automation and computerization, it…
The Literature of Dance
Sara N. Brownmiller, Donald C. DickinsonLibrarians find the search for information on dance topics time‐consuming and difficult. There are few reference works devoted specifically to dance, and a number of those that do…
Native Language Dictionaries and Grammars of Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland
Mark C. Goniwiecha, David A. HalesAmericans have become increasingly interested in their ethnic heritage in recent years. Assimilated Euro‐Americans, whose ancestors arrived in the New World generations ago, are…
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