Collection Building: Volume 12 Issue 1/2

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The Vertical File: An Overview and Guide

Dorothy S. Jacobs

Call it a vertical file, an information file, a pamphlet file, or give it any one of a number of more creative titles. Regardless of its name, this file is likely to be the place…

Scholar or Librarian? How Academic Libraries' Dualistic Concept of the Bibliographer Affects Recruitment

John Haar

The early 1990s are not the best of times to operate an academic library collection management unit. Financial woes abound: the escalating cost of materials (particularly…

Term Paper Counseling: A Unique Way of Collection Development

Joyce C. Wright

Let me begin by quoting an undergraduate student who recently visited the Term Paper Counseling Desk at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign.

Term Paper Counseling in Academic Libraries: The Caribbean Studies Example

Nelly S. Gonzalez

The undergraduate curricula of a large academic institution are varied, extensive, and interdisciplinary. It is the academic library's task to support these curricula and to…

Toward a Poetics for Collecting Poetry by Women

Corri Elizabeth Wells

To a certain extent the history of women's poetry in America is a tale of confinements,” writes Alicia Ostriker in the opening chapter of Stealing the Language: The Emergence of

Library Acquisitions and Economic Recovery in West Africa

Marcel C. Obiagwu

In the past decade, most countries in the West African subregion have been caught in an economic stranglehold, with foreign exchange scarcity, capital flight, and general…

Alzheimer's Disease A Selective Bibliography of United States Government Documents

Catherine M. Dwyer

In 1906 a German doctor, Louis Alzheimer, first recognized the brain abnormalities that are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. These abnormalities include clumps of dead brain…

Libraries and the Middle East

Noha Ismail

In a democracy, most major issues of public importance are influenced by public debate. We have seen this dynamic at work in debates over equal rights for minorities and women…

Bibliography: Jewish/Palestinian Middle East Peace Perspectives

Lisa Albrecht

This semi‐annotated bibliography (with a focus on feminist activist work) is a project I continually revise. Therefore, please view it as incomplete. If you have any additions…

Small Literary Presses

Small literary presses have come into their own. Many have been in business for a number of years. One indication of their success is that their titles are now considered for…

Collecting Jazz — and More

Beginning in this issue, the Music Notes column will review recommended selections of mainly—but not limited to—jazz CDs. Good collecting and good listening!

ISSN:

0160-4953

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1978 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited