Collection Building: Volume 3 Issue 1

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Visual Literacy, Libraries and Community Development

Paula Murphy

The process of community development can be described as one which embraces the efforts of the people and the government working to improve the economic, social and cultural…

The Middle‐Aged “Older Woman”: A Feminist Librarian's Approach to Library Resources

Helen R. Wheeler

At least three demographic trends in the twentieth century are having a tremendous impact on the patterns of women's lives. With increased life expectancy, reduced birth‐rate, and…

The Public Library as a Sex Education Resource for Adolescents

Mary K. Chelton

Three distinct, and interrelated, events led to this article. All three actually happened to me. The first was when a young man whom I had known vaguely as a neighborhood kid…

Architectural Preservation in Canada: A Bibliographic Essay

Ellen McClung, Toby Eines

Within the past ten years Canada has experienced a renewed interest in its architectural past. Whether part of an international trend toward architectural conservation (witness…

Issues in Collection Building: Why Collection Development Policies

Elizabeth Futas

Volume Three of Collection Building introduces a new column, Issues in Collection Building. Our previous editions have centered primarily on the means of developing library…

Publications of the Alternative Press

Elliott Shore

This is the first in a projected series of columns which will suggest materials for libraries from alternative, independent, radical, and small presses. Each column will focus on…

Free and Inexpensive Materials

Ilse B. Moon

With this issue, Collection Building reinstitutes the popular column on free and inexpensive materials developed by Kathleen Weibel in the three issues of our first volume. Most…

Notes on Contributors and Editorial Board

SHERRIE S. BERGMAN is College Librarian of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She served previously as director of the Roger Williams College Library and on the library…

ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited