Reference Services Review: Volume 2 Issue 1

Editorial

C. Edward Wall

Reference Services Review continues to grow rapidly in content and, we hope, in quality. If quality can be measured in terms of those associated with RSR (and those who will be…

Recent reference books

Frances Neel Cheney

Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are…

Government reference publications

Jimmie Hoover

The materials included in this column were selected on the basis of an item by item review of all government publications received at a major depository library. Emphasis is…

Government serials and services

Frederick J. O'Hara

In this quarterly review of government publications, the judgments expressed are those of the reviewer, Dr. Frederic O'Hara, professor of library science, Graduate Library School…

British reference books

Anthony P. Harvey

This column inaugurates a new facet of the coverage of reference materials contained in RSR: the inclusion of sections devoted to reviews of useful reference books published…

Dictionaries for kids; Or why Charlie Brown's Snoopy about words

Steve Rybicki

Picture if you can: a word And if you can, you have the beginnings of a children's dictionary. Take a child, or better yet have one of your own, shake him in a bag filled with…

Library orientation and instruction — 1973: An annotated review of the literature

Hannelore B. Rader

Following is an annotated bibliography of materials published in 1973 on orienting library users to the library and instructing them in the use of library resources. Though…

Reference books in print

Tom Schultheiss, Lorraine Hartline, Phyllis Rosenstock, Jean Mandeberg, Sue Stern

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the…

New International Fourth Edition Abbreviations Dictionary

Ralph De Sola

Here is the long‐awaited fourth edition of Ralph De Sola's classic Abbreviations Dictionary. This updated edition of a work first published in 1958 is the largest, most complete…