Collection Building: Volume 3 Issue 1
Table of contents
Visual Literacy, Libraries and Community Development
Paula MurphyThe 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. WheelerAt 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. CheltonThree 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 EinesWithin 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 FutasVolume 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 ShoreThis 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. MoonWith 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…