Collection Building: Volume 4 Issue 1
Table of contents
Photography as Historical Evidence and Art: Steps in Collection Building
Juan R. Freudenthal, Josette A. LydersThat photography was more than a mere technological breakthrough was clear to its inventors but not to their contemporaries or generations after. The fast visual appropriation of…
Writers Who Protest and Protesters Who Write; A Guide to Soviet Dissent Literature
Susan Vince EmersonHuman rights has emerged in the past several years as an important issue of our times and the personal freedoms of citizens of many countries has become a concern of the American…
The Bearing of the “Faurisson Affair” on Librarians and Their Responsibility to Intellectual Freedom
James A. TaylorWhat has come to be known as the “Faurisson Affair” has wide‐ranging implications for librarians concerned with their function as caretakers of intellectual freedom and…
Information on Family Violence
Connie MoraffThe newly emerging field of family violence has its modern origins in the early 1960s with the publication in 1962 of an article by C. Henry Kempe entitled “The Battered Child…
Issues in Collection Development: Collection Evaluation
Elizabeth FutasBuilding a collection in academic and public libraries entails knowing the publishing market and matching it to the community to be served. This requires a guiding philosophy with…
Measure for Measure Free and Inexpensive Materials on the Metric System
Ilse B. MoonWhile Thomas Jefferson argued more than two centuries ago that the United States should adopt the metric system for its measurements, the U.S. is today the only industrialized…
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…