State of the Art Survey of Documents Reference Sources

Abstract

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 improved second generation government publications tools well suited to information retrieval plus microform/hard copy collections conveniently available. Custodians of extensive retrospective collections of Federal documents have only to identify and acquire modern indexes and the whole world of government information, minus a few desert isles, is at their finger tips. Collection builders face happy but expensive options that range from multimedia encompassing all bodies of information to single fiche at a time services.

Citation

Hoover, J. and Clemmons, N. (1977), "State of the Art Survey of Documents Reference Sources", Reference Services Review, Vol. 5 No. 4, pp. 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048618