Reference Services Review: Volume 9 Issue 1

Current Survey of Reference Sources in Journalism

Eleanor S. Block

Journalism is concerned with the reporting, writing, editing, broadcasting and the photography of news. Editorial or print journalism is limited to writing, editing and reporting…

Through the Bull to the Bear Facts: A Comparison of the Library Packages of Moody's and Standard & Poor's

Thomas D. Rohmiller

Librarians have a choice between two investment rating packages, Moody's Investors Services' “Special Library Service” and Standard & Poor's “Complete Library Reference Shelf.” In…

The Research Libraries Information Network as a Public Service Tool at Stanford University Libraries

David R. McDonald, Elizabeth M. Salzer, Celine Walker

Bibliographic utilities, such as OCLC, RLIN, WLN, and UTLAS were developed, at least initially, to support automation of technical services functions. However, such utilities are…

A Comparative Review of BRS, DIALOG and ORBIT

Laura G. Harper

The decade of the 1970s witnessed a phenomenon in the growing acceptance of online database searching and its integration with more traditional library services. Although accurate…

Religion Periodical Indexes: A Basic List

Seth Kasten

What follows is not intended to be an exhaustive bibliography of indexes to the vast and varied literature of religion, but is one reference librarian's selection of the…

Providing Reference Service Using State Documents

Nancy P. Johnson

State publications are sometimes regarded as under utilized resources, the neglected orphans of the library. Yet they contain essential, pertinent information. Publications from…