Reference Services Review: Volume 19 Issue 4

Electronic paths to resource sharing: Widening opportunities through the Internet

Mary E. Engle

In the early 1980s, Luis Alvarez and his colleagues added a new dimension to Darwin's theory of evolution. With evidence from studies of the earth's crust between the cretacious…

Hypermedia and library instruction: The challenge of design

Mary I. Piette, Nathan M. Smith

Imagine being able to provide instruction for using online catalogs, indexes, and CD‐ROM databases at library workstations or integrated into online catalogs and CD‐ROM indexes…

Christopher Columbus: A selective guide to literature, 1970–1989

Allan Metz

This is a selective annotated bibliography of the literature on Christopher Columbus from 1970 to 1989. The subject is particularly relevant considering the approach of the…

The EPIC experience: An assessment of OCLC's New Online System after its first year

Elaine Zorbas, Laurie Whitcomb

The EPIC system continues to evolve since it was first released in January 1990. Initially EPIC offered improved access to OCLC's formidable bibliographic database. Pasadena…

Neurolinguistic Programming: A selective bibliography

Izabella Taler

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) represents a new approach to understanding the process of human communication. Developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the early 1970s…

Europe East and West: Basic business reference sources

Daniel Hanne

Two profound changes are taking place in Europe—the economic and political integration in the West and the democratic and economic evolution of the East. Though war and its…

Library orientation and instruction—1990

Hannelore B. Rader

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with information literacy including instruction in the use of information resources, research, and computer skills related…

Expanding the repertoire of reference

Paul Frantz

In the literature of librarianship, the education of a reference librarian has, on the whole, meant two things. First, it has referred to the theoretical and/or practical training…

Application of training principles and techniques for successful library instruction

Paula N. Warnken, Victoria L. Young

Library instruction has become a public services program at most academic libraries. As such, it has the potential of being a library's most innovative and visible program. Yet…