Collection Building: Volume 2 Issue 2
Table of contents
Libraries and Alternatives: An Essay
Patricia Glass SchumanThe library is the only social institution whose main ethical underpinning is the collection, preservation, and dissemination of all manner of information. This, at any rate, is…
The Acquisition of Alternative Materials
James P. DankyAs is true of so much that we read and hear, neither of these statements is wholly accurate. While the Association of American Publishers may not have a position in favor of…
Access to Alternatives: New Approaches in Cataloging
Sanford BermanIt's not enough to simply acquire alternative and small‐press materials. They must also be made easily accessible to library users by means of accurate, intelligible, and thorough…
Reference Service for Alternative Publications
Elliott Shore, Daniel TsangThe most challenging aspect of overseeing an alternative press collection is to provide adequate reference service. The same forces that cause libraries to ignore alternative…
Report of the First Year of the Alternative Acquisitions Project, 1978–1979
The diversity of ideas and information is central to the meaning of libraries—we enshrine it, and too frequently that is the word—in our Library Bill of Rights and other…