Collection Building: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
Building and Maintaining the Community Resources File for I&R Service
Sadie EsparLibrary based Information and Referral services are no longer a matter for philosophical debate or speculation. They exist. They work. And they work better than anyone…
Collection Development and the College Library
Betty‐Carol SellenCollection development is in the forefront of professional interest and concern. Evidence for this is demonstrated by the growth of library literature, reports in the library…
Collection Development in School Library Media Centers: National Recommendation and Reality
Marilyn L. MillerThe school library media center materials collection has evolved dramatically in the past sixty years from book‐centered collections of “the best reference books and…literature…
Informational Status and the Mass Media: The Case of the Urban Poor
Daniel Flores DuranA relatively recent development in the history of social inequality is the growth of mass media communications. In developed and in underdeveloped nations, in highly stratified…
Preparing for Retirement: A Bibliographic Essay
Donna MeekerRetirement is a phenomenon unique to modern industrial societies. It is only within the last century, through technological and scientific advances, that industrial nations have…
Sources of Information on Urban Mass Transportation: A Bibliographic Essay
Richard CreedenAmong the many pressing social issues facing today's urban areas is how to provide adequate and efficient transportation facilities while maintaining a healthy economic and social…
Free and Inexpensive Materials
Kathleen WeibelThere's no such thing as free materials, you scoff. And rightly so. Every item added to a library's collection costs money in staff time and storage costs, if not in direct…
Toward Cooperative Collection Development in the Illinois Library and Information Network
Robert R. McClarren, ChairmanUnder the Illinois Library System Act, the head librarians of the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago Public, and Illinois State Libraries, with the…