Reference Services Review: Volume 30 Issue 2

Follow a dream

Ilene F. Rockman

Forging partnerships between businesses and individuals can serve the library well, especially in the completion of a building project. Working in tandem with government officials…

Web library tours: using streaming video and interactive quizzes

John Hickok

Many academic library Web sites offer online “tours” to provide basic orientation of their collections and services. However, these tours are often merely photos, floor plans, or…

Student perceptions of information literacy: insights for librarians

Nancy H. Seamans

To determine what kinds of services are appropriate and necessary for first‐year college students, it is useful to first understand how students acquire and use information during…

Managing a digital collection: the Garst photographic collection

Bridget M. Breitbach, Rachael Tracey, Teresa Y. Neely

Over the years, digitization has become an important part of libraries because it increases accessibility to the general public via the World Wide Web. Colorado State University…

From the front line: information literacy instruction in Canadian academic libraries

Heidi Julien, Stuart Boon

Reports on data collected from an on‐going Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)‐funded study of information literacy and bibliographic instruction in Canadian…

Guide to free online legal and legislative resources

Jane Cramer

This paper presents a guide to free online legislative and legal resources for non‐law librarians. Due to the efforts of the federal and state governments, in addition to the…

The United States’ Vietnam War: a selective annotated bibliography

Teri Boscia

Since the end of the United States’ Vietnam War and Indochina’s second war, little scholarly attention has been paid to a war that has so greatly affected the American public’s…

Studies in chance: a selective guide to gaming industry resources

Susan C. Awe, Kathleen Keating, David G. Schwartz

The potential for substantial revenues from gaming has moved gambling from an underworld activity to a legitimate mainstream business. This selective list of portals, Web sites…