Reference Services Review: Volume 24 Issue 2

The gateway: A bridge to the library of the future

Lawrence Dowler, Laura Farwell

In 1993, a proposal was made at Harvard College to renovate the principal undergraduate library (Lamont) to create a Gateway library. What do we mean by that phrase? A Gateway…

Resources in support of technology transfer: Revised and updated

Daniel Hanne, Martin Zeller

We used the preceding definition to introduce our original article on resources in technology transfer that appeared in the fall 1994 issue of this publication. The emphasis is on…

Multicultural health care: A select bibliography

Kristin Stoklosa

The purpose of this bibliographic guide is to acquaint librarians with resources on health care provision for patients of various cultures. The sources in this bibliography…

Is hunting ethical? A core collection of books

William H. Wiese

A recently published survey found that slightly over 14 million persons age 16 or over hunted in the United States in 1991 and spent over $12 billion on hunting. By comparison…

Puerto Rico's political status debate: An annotated bibliography of selected english‐language sources

Jose O. Diaz, Karen R. Diaz

“When James Boswell returned from a tour of Corsica in 1765 he wrote: ‘It is indeed amazing that an island so considerable, and in which such noble things have been doing, should…

User education and information literacy for the next decade: An international perspective

Hannelore B. Rader

In the Information Age, people become information processors, as they read, listen to news, talk to each other, and watch television or computer screens. Yet many have not…

A staff‐generated cross‐training plan for academic reference librarians: The TQM approach at Wayne State University libraries

Lothar Spang

The competence of academic librarians promises to be a foremost issue for academic librarianship in the twenty‐first century. New subject specialties, unprecedented information…