Collection Building: Volume 1 Issue 1

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Building and Maintaining the Community Resources File for I&R Service

Sadie Espar

Library 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 Sellen

Collection 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. Miller

The 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 Duran

A 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 Meeker

Retirement 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 Creeden

Among 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 Weibel

There'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, Chairman

Under the Illinois Library System Act, the head librarians of the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago Public, and Illinois State Libraries, with the…

ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited