Reference Services Review: Volume 8 Issue 2

Current Survey of American History Reference Sources

Gary D. Barber, Carol Burroughs

This year's survey focuses mainly on reference works published during 1979 and early 1980. However, to help maintain continuity with previous surveys, some especially noteworthy…

A Baedeker to Travel Guide Series

Harold M. Otness

To the making of guidebooks, there is apparently no end. Books in Print 1978–1980 lists 54 guide‐books to New York City, 39 to France, 32 to Mexico, and 22 to Hawaii, and that may…

A Bibliography of Guides to Graduate Programs

Eugene A. Engeldinger

With the job market as it is for many college graduates, it is more important than ever that students choose those professional and graduate schools which will best meet their…

Taking Stock of Two Services: Moody's Investors Fact Sheets and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports

Michael Keating

As the investing public flocks to no‐frills discount brokers and does its own investment homework, more and more of these soldiers of fortune can be found around the loose‐leaf…

Reviewing Book Review Indexes

Floris W. Wood

When library users wish to know more about a book before actually reading it, or simply want to learn what others who have read a book think about it, they have at their disposal…

Reference Serials

Julia E. Miller

This column has always intended to provide indepth, comparative reviews of abstracting services, indexes, serial bibliographies, yearbooks, directories, almanacs and other serial…