Reference Services Review: Volume 21 Issue 1

Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age

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Welcome or not, here they come: Unaffiliated users of academic libraries

Lloyd M. Jansen, Lloyd M. Jansen

Imagine you are working at the reference desk of a major university library on a busy weekday afternoon. As you say, “How may I help you?” to your next client, you notice that he…

Librarian in a box: The use of electronic mail for reference

Julie Still, Frank Campbell

In the past few years more and more librarians have discovered electronic mail. One indication of this new awareness is the proliferation of library‐specific bulletin boards and…

Recent reference sources in women's studies

Linda A. Krikos

As the field of women's studies has grown into a mature academic discipline, the number of sources devoted to women has increased dramatically, particularly in the last decade…

Who were the Soviet peoples?: A guide to materials on the non‐Russian Nationalities of the former USSR

Gordon E. Hogg

Until very recently an immense USSR comprised fifteen republics. Now the three Baltic states are free of Moscow's direction, and an independent Ukraine has joined Belarus and the…

Reference service for Sstudents with disabilities: Desktop braille publishing in the academic library

Tom McNulty

Over the past two decades, a number of social and legislative forces have had the effect of increasing disabled peoples' attendance at institutions of higher education. Major…

Regional gardening books and periodicals: An annotated bibliography

Beth Clewis

In a world in which “England's green and pleasant land” sets the standard for garden excellence, gardeners in much of the United States will struggle in vain to adapt the British…

Polymer education in U.S. colleges and universities: Reference sources and guides

Earnestine Wright Adeyemon

In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Mr. Robinson gave Dust in Hoffman's character, Benjamin, the scene‐stealing career suggestion, “plastics!” Although Benjamin appeared indifferent…

Land surveying: A bibliography of sources

Ellen H. Ehrig

Surveying is one of the world's oldest professions. The Egyptians used a system of ropes and knots to relocate boundaries along the Nile after periodic flooding; they also used…

The origins and development of Jane's Fighting Ships

Bert Chapman

Once a year a reference source is published in Surrey, England, that brings visitors such as the military attachés from the Chinese and former Soviet embassies in London to…

Workplace literacy: A selected bibliography

Karen Rupp‐Serrano

Literacy has been one of the most publicized societal problems of the past decade, and it is likely to continue as such for some time to come. Like many problems of modern…

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ISSN:

0090-7324

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein