Reference Services Review: Volume 5 Issue 1

State of the Art Survey of Political Science Reference Sources

Jean Herold

Political science, as an intellectual discipline, reflects the methodological controversies that have divided the field. The traditional approach, favoring history and theory, was…

State of the Art Survey of Reference Sources in Film, Television and Radio

Leslie Kane

“Since films attract an audience of millions, the need and appetite for information about them is enormous.” So said Harold Leonard in his introduction to The Film Index published…

State of the Art Survey of Reference Sources in Music

Beth Macleod, David Ginsburg

Although none of the new music reference books of the past year totally replaces the old stand‐bys, some significant works did appear, especially in the areas of contemporary…

State of the Art Survey of Reference Materials of Australia and New Zealand

Dietrich H. Borchardt

The state of the reference‐arts in this part of the world is such that at the moment little of universal interest can be reported. Though there is a growing awareness of existing…

Health and Medical Care: Selected Data Sources

Sarojini Balachandran

One of the leading indicators of the quality of human life is health and access to medical care. Increasing social concern over the problems of health has resulted in various…

Library Orientation and Instruction — 1976: An Annotated Review of the Literature

Hannelore B. Rader

This bibliography covers materials published during 1976, with some 1975 entries omitted from last year's listing. Citations from a number of foreign countries are included if…

A Guide to Research on Companies

M. Balachandran

Before we start looking for information on a specific company, it would be logical to first find our what type of company it is. Broadly speaking, companies fall into two major…

Company‐Related Information: Some Ancillary Sources

M. Balachandran

In this survey, we would be concerned, not so much with the sources that provide information directly on companies themselves, as on those which contain composite statistical and…