A Fresh Look at the Index to Current Urban Documents and the Urban Documents Microfiche Collection

Abstract

Need information on programs for homeless persons? On policies and costs for treating persons with AIDS? On groundwater contamination? Waterfront development? Rent control? How about requests for extensive narrative and statistical information on a distant community or metropolitan region? The Index to Current Urban Documents and its accompanying Urban Documents Microfiche Collection are excellent resources for these types of questions. Unfortunately, many libraries that subscribe to the index and microfiche collection fail to use them. In fact, underuse of these resources is probably the norm in most libraries. In a 1986 study of northern Illinois public libraries identified as receiving requests for local government information at least biweekly, none of the librarians interviewed reported having used the Index to Current Urban Documents.

Citation

Heckart, R.J. (1989), "A Fresh Look at the Index to Current Urban Documents and the Urban Documents Microfiche Collection", Reference Services Review, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 79-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049067