Reference Services Review: Volume 20 Issue 2

Technostress and the reference librarian

John Kupersmith

Rapid technological change has become a fact of life in the libraries of the 1990s. While this change touches all parts of the library organization, nowhere is it more visible, or…

Between the Scientist and the Lawmaker: The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

Deborah Mongeau, Pamela Stoddard

As the 1960s drew to a close, Congress found itself grappling with an increasing array of complex technological issues that it was ill equipped to analyze and that could be the…

An evaluation of a training and assistance program for the CD‐ROM Databases: Reflections on the process

Richard F. Kenny, Eileen Schroeder

Compact disk database systems have been proliferating in libraries for the past several years. Producers have promoted them as user‐friendly, self‐instructional systems that…

Feminism and war: Theoretical issues and debates

Judith A. DiIorio

Men make war; women make peace. Men make war; women make children. Men make war because women make children. Because men make war, women make children. Women make peace because…

America's National Parklands: An annotated bibliography

Eva Lautemann

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska; the battle over future oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; oil spills in the Gulf of…

Performance evaluation in bibliographic instruction workshop courses: Assessing what students do as a measure of what they know

Richard Feinberg, Christine King

Evaluation of student performance in bibliographic instruction (B.I.) has been, and continues to be, an area of interest to B.I. practitioners. The last 15 years have seen a…

The Cambridge Modern History: Genesis of a reference publishing tradition

Ronald H. Fritze

Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford: the names of these universities instantly conjure up images of the highest attainments of higher education. Of course, great universities also operate…

Bibliography of Alaska and Polar Regions (BIBAPR): A a database for locating information about Alaska and Polar regions in periodical publications

Ronald K. Inouye, David A. Hales

With the discovery of oil on Alaska's North Slope, the continued issues regarding the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act, the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in the Prince…