Reference Services Review: Volume 5 Issue 4

State of the Art Survey of Documents Reference Sources

Jimmie Hoover, Nancy Clemmons

Future shock for documents librarians can be pure bliss. Now that the Federal and private data banks and computers have recovered from their initial indigestion we begin to see…

State of the Art Survey of Reference Sources for Children and Young Adults

Alice Smith

In surveying the state of the art of reference materials for children and young adults in both school and public libraries, it is necessary to reaffirm certain “givens” about such…

State of the Art Survey of Reference Sources in Engineering

Sarojini Balachandran

This survey covers civil, electrical and electronics, energy, environment, general, materials, mechanical, and traffic and transportation engineering. Areas such as biomedical and…

Anthropology: A Guide to Basic Sources

Marilyn L. Haas

If the bibliographic apparatus is the measure of a discipline's maturity, anthropology has come of age. Anthropology now has at least one entry in nearly all of the standard…

International Economic Statistics: A Selected List of Documents

M. Balachandran

The word “document” in the title has been used to denote publications from our federal government, foreign governments and regional and international organizations. Most readers…