Reference Services Review: Volume 20 Issue 3

Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age

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The Columbus Quincentennial: Who's celebrating? An annotated checklist (1990–1991) of new resources on Christopher Columbus and his influence

Christopher Dodge

The winter 1991 issue of Reference Services Review featured an annotated bibliography of literature on Christopher Columbus from 1970 to 1989. That literature covered such topics…

Tracking the Monster: Frankenstein in an academic library

Lorraine Palmer

This article discusses information sources and critical interpretations of Mary Shelley's life and her most important work, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus. In addition to…

The art of speaking fair: A Bibliographical study of Euphemism And Dysphemism

Richard A. Gray

It is eminently fitting that the Greeks who gave us their word for “speaking fair” should also have supplied us with the ultimate exemplification of its use. They were wont to…

Teacher preparation reform reports: 1985–1990: A bibliographic essay

Bonnie Gratch

The decade of the 1980s was unique for the sheer quantity of education reform reports and legislation. Virtually every state enacted education reform legislation, including…

Focus on earthquake information

Dorothy Tao, Patricia Ann Coty

Until the Loma Prieta earthquake of 17 October 1989, also known as the “World Series earthquake” or the “San Francisco earthquake,” many of us may have considered earthquakes a…

Cover of Reference Services Review

ISSN:

0090-7324

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein