Reference Services Review: Volume 9 Issue 3

Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age

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The Encyclopedia of Bioethics

Pamela R. Broadley

Published in its first edition in 1978, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics already deserves landmark status for several reasons including uniqueness of concept, overall quality and…

Current Survey of Reference Sources of Australia

Fiona Lodge

At a time when pessimism is the prevailing mood and the outlook for Australian publishing is generally held to be uncertain, the Australian Bookseller and Publisher reports a…

College Guides: A Crash Course

Carolyn M. Mulac

Guides to colleges and universities constitute a popular segment of the reference collection in many libraries. They may be used by a variety of patrons for a variety of reasons…

Radio and Television: A Core Collection of Reference Books

Elizabeth DeVito, Jane Raskin

The increasing dominance of electronic media in our society compels today's librarian to maintain and develop a well‐rounded reference collection in this field. Indeed, this is…

The Hospitality Industry: The Fine Art of Locating Information

Linda Friend, Sally Wayman

Introduction The hospitality field, which incorporates both the restaurant/food services industries and the lodging industry, is one of the most important industries in the United…

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Sources of Information on International Marketing: A Checklist

Rod Christensen

There are a multitude of sources of value to researchers who require information on international marketing. This holds true for the person seeking those sources or for those…

OCLC's Interlibrary Loan Subsystem

Charles La Grange

This essay could begin with a discussion of interlibrary loan procedures before the existence of OCLC, but it seems preferable not to recount the miseries of the Dark Ages…

A Review of Three Radical and Working Class Collective Biographies

George Schoyer

The Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals, the Dictionary of Labour Biography, and the Dictionnaire Biographique du Mouvetnent Ouvrier Francais are three ongoing…

Arts in America: A Bibliography

A.J. Colaianne

Arts in America: A Bibliography. Ed. by Bernard Karpel. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. $190.00. 4 v. LC 79–15321. ISBN 0–87474–578–0. The publication of Arts

Special Collections in College Libraries: The Vertical File

Tom Hodgson, Andrew Garoogian

“Pamphlet material has some definite functions in college libraries and therefore should be accorded more consideration than it usually receives. Often librarians give this part…

Quo Vadis — The Bound Document?

Jimmie H. Hoover

A thread that puckers the entire warp and woof of library service is the problem of binding library materials. Binding procedures “are the steps taken to insure the preservation…

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Reference Serials

Canadian Almanac and Directory. 1847— . A. $39.00. Published by Copp Clark Pitman, 517 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 1G1, Canada; available in the U.S. from Gale…

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ISSN:

0090-7324

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein