Reference Services Review: Volume 21 Issue 4

Staff exchange in reference services

Andrea R. Testi, Sever Bordeianu

Research at universities is becoming increasingly specialized and, at the same time, more interdisciplinary. In response to this paradox, academic libraries have tended to…

Blues: An assessment of scholarship, reference tools, and documentary sources

Patrick Ragains

Blues music is in the midst of its second revival in popularity in roughly thirty years. The year 1960 can be identified, with some qualification, as a reference point for the…

Academic libraries and outreach services through precollege programs: A proactive collaboration

Melba Jesudason

In this time of severe national budget deficit, all programs are reviewed for trimming/downsizing and effectiveness. Just as educational systems are evaluated for trimming, so are…

The 1992 U.S. Presidential election: An annotated bibliography

Allan Metz

“What went wrong?” This was the question no doubt asked by the Bush campaign and the Republican Party after the 3 November 1992 presidential election.

Thomas Clarkson and the Anti‐Slavery Society

Richard A. Gray

In a previous issue of Serials Review, I described the three international organizations that I then assumed were the principal ones concerned with the protection of threatened…

Lolita and censorship: A case study

Ann Feeney

Vladimir Nabokov's 1954 novel Lolita is one of the most frequently mentioned works in discussions of censorship, probably because of its undeniable literary merit and the…

Cities for sale: Privatization of local government services

Deborah Mongeau

Private provision of public services has always been a factor in local government. In 1736 Benjamin Franklin and a group of civic leaders founded a fire company in Philadelphia…

The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language, 3D edition: A review

Richard A. Gray

In her introduction to the third edition to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD), executive editor Anne H. Soukhanov justly and temperately praises the…