Reference Services Review: Volume 24 Issue 1

Institutional policy issues for providing public internet access

Rosanne M. Cordell, Nancy A. Wootton

Libraries of all types are in the midst of attempting to acquire the equipment and connections necessary to provide patron access to the Internet. The 1994 survey of public…

Putting the house in order: Using Innopac to manage problematic reference serials and pseudoserials

Christina E. Carter, Nina K. Stephenson, Frances C. Wilkinson

Reference department collections contain a wide variety of serials and serial‐like publications. These include (among others) indexing and abstracting services, directories…

Integrating bibliographic instruction into a marketing curriculum: A hands‐on workshop approach using interactive team‐teaching

Vaughan C. Judd, Betty J. Tims

Although some institutions of higher learning seem to have difficulty acknowledging it, teaching should be the single most important part of their mission; it is a college or…

Statistical sources on women: A critical evaluation

Linda A. Krikos

In a paper published in 1986, Helen B. Josephine and Deborah K. Blouin discuss four areas where new reference works in women's studies were needed: statistical sources…

Beyond limbaugh: The far right's publishing spectrum

Jim Danky, John Cherney

In the 1960s those on the political left flattered themselves that the vast number of publications by socialists, anarchists, feminists, and other groups on that wing of the…

Cooperative reference services and the referred reference question: An annotated bibliography 1983–1994

Donna R. Hogan

Cooperative reference is defined as “a process through which information assistance is provided, at least in part, by referring the user or the user's questions to…

Integrating library instruction into the curriculum through freshman symposium

Joan Parks, Dana Hendrix

Structuring a sound freshman‐year experience has become an important retention and orientation tool on many campuses, and there are many different approaches; having a program of…

Russian libraries, an indestructible part of national memory: A study guide for librarians

Victoria Spain

The Russian poet, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (1886–1921), was arrested in 1921 on the false charge of conspiracy and was shot. The Soviet Union's existence ended as abruptly and…

Appendix: Visit to three Russian libraries

Victoria Spain

During 15–25 July 1995, a trip was made to Russia by students and faculty members of the Hofstra University psychology department, as part of its exchange program with St…