To read this content please select one of the options below:

State of the Art Survey of Reference Materials in Business

M. Balachandran (Assistant Commerce Librarian (Reference) Commerce Library, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign)

Reference Services Review

ISSN: 0090-7324

Article publication date: 1 April 1976

98

Abstract

One of the most significant events that took place during the period under review was the recent symposium on economics bibliography held in July 1975 under the auspices of the International Economics Association. It met at the famous Institut fur Weltwirtschaft, University of Kiel, West Germany. The theme of the symposium was the “Organization and Retrieval of Economic Knowledge.” The papers presented there covered recent trends in data and bibliographic organization, the emerging library characteristics of many specific economic subfields, the emerging solutions to the library cost problem and the boundaries of methodologies of economics. At its conclusion the Symposium issued a statement identifying some concerns about the future of economics libraries and data retrieval. Pending the forthcoming publication of the entire transcript, interested readers may find a summary of the symposium in the Journal of Economic Literature (December 1975: 1320–1321). While it is not entirely appropriate for this survey, I would be remiss if I did not mention another significant occasion: the bicentennial of the publication of the great Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in honor of which the Clardendon Press has issued a special reprint.

Citation

Balachandran, M. (1976), "State of the Art Survey of Reference Materials in Business", Reference Services Review, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048592

Publisher

:

MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1976, MCB UP Limited

Related articles