Collection Building: Volume 14 Issue 1

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Some Implications of the Canon Debate for Collection Development

Brian Quinn

Canons have been of interest to librarians dating back to the days when Robert Maynard Hutchins instituted the Great Books program at the University of Chicago. Hutchins did so at…

Building a Russian Literature Collection

James McShane

Each special collection starts out as a core assemblage of books. As the collection's size increases, its quality (it is assumed) does as well. If a library is lucky, it will have…

Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Historical Geography Through Citation Analysis

Anne L. Buchanan, Jean‐Pierre V.M. Hérubel

Because the degree of interdisciplinarity can be analyzed through citation analysis, the Journal of Historical Geography is examined for interdisciplinarity, that is, the usage of…

BLACK AFRICAN WOMEN WRITERS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

Debora Richey

Since the 1970s, interest in African literature has grown considerably in English and comparative literature departments at American colleges and universities. African writings…

WHY LIBRARIES MUST SUBSCRIBE TO—AND PRESERVE—THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY PRESS

John Yewell

It is not merely a matter of intellectual freedom and principles of anti‐censorship. For the sake of future historians, ALL papers of record belong in the repositories of our…

CDs and All That Jazz

The scope of this column is being expanded with this issue in response to the dramatic increase in the publication and range of CD‐ROMs. We will include among the reviews CDs of…

Small Presses

I recently visited the 1994 Poetry Publication Showcase at Poets House in New York City. This is a wonderful annual exhibit of new poetry including both volumes by individual…

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0160-4953

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1978 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited