Reference Services Review: Volume 16 Issue 4
Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age
Table of contents
Concept and Reality: Managing Pikes Peak Library District's Community Resource and Information System
Nina Alexis MalyshevIn 1988, Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) celebrated the twelfth anniversary of its automated community information system. This vast local resource represents over 10,000…
Out of the Shoebox: Publishing a Regional Periodical Index Using a Microcomputer
Jean M. Schmidt, John S. WilsonIn the closed stack area of the Louisiana Room of Dupre Library at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, three librarians met in the early spring of 1986. This chance meeting…
The Dictionary of National Biography and Its Early Editors and Publisher
Ronald H. FritzeThe Dictionary of National Biography (or DNB as it is commonly called and as it will be referred to in this paper) is a classic. Depending on whether a library owns an original…
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Sharon S. ChadwickUllmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is the fifth completely revised edition of Ullmann's Encyklopaedie der Technischen Chemie, the fourth edition of which was completed…
Reference Serials: An Index
Joan BermanWhen I began as column editor for “Reference Serials” I experienced an immediate need for a cumulative index to titles reviewed in this column over the years. An expeditious…
Teaching Only the Essentials‐The Thirty‐Minute Stand
Eugene A. EngeldingerThe one‐shot library lecture is a common approach to teaching library skills and one that is universally lamented by instruction librarians as insufficient. We all know there is…
Teachers and Library Awareness: Using Bibliographic Instruction in Teacher Preparation Programs
Frances F. JacobsonLibrarians working in public service posts are well aware that students possess varying levels of library skills. High school librarians bemoan the fact that students seem to have…
Numismatics: A Core Collection
R. Scott HarnsbergerNumismatics, the systematic study and collecting of coins and related items such as tokens, medals, and paper money, has been a recognized scholarly discipline since the Middle…
Public Opinion Polls: A Guide to Accessing the Literature
Graham R. WaldenOver the past fifty years, public opinion polls have assumed an increasingly important role in daily life. Quite possibly every person living in America has at one time or another…
Augusto César Sandino, 1895–1934
Rhonda L. NeugebauerOn 1 January 1929, Augusto César Sandino wrote his now famous declaration that aptly summarizes both the Sandino and the Frente Sandinista de Liberatión Nacional (FSLN, the…
The New Oxford English Dictionary and the Uses of Machine‐Readable Dictionaries
Richard A. GrayAny major dictionary needs to be continuously updated to keep current with the rapid growth of language. Faced with the need for such endless supplementation, Oxford University…
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