Collection Building: Volume 6 Issue 4

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Information, Please

It has been suggested with some frequency in this journal that issues in collection development can often be traced to definitions which derived in turn from varying theories…

Due Process Principles Applied to the Development of Reconsideration Policies

Daniel Callison, Cynthia Kittleson

Policies and procedures designed to meet selection of and challenges to instructional materials are in existence in many school districts. Often, however, these policies fail to…

Eating Clams with Your Fingers: A Survey of Contemporary Etiquette Books

Richard W. Grefrath

It's no surprise that the early 1980s have witnessed a resurgence of interest in etiquette books, since that's that usual reaction after a period of loose morals. The current…

Library Networking: A Bibliography

Robert Dugan

Algermissen, Virginia, Penny Billings, Sandra Grace, Barbara Guidry, and John Blair. “Subminute Telefacsimile for ILL Document Delivery.” Information Technology and Libraries, I…

Materials on Sports and Games in Humanities Collections

Yoko Kato

In The International Dictionary of Sports and Games, “sport” and “game” have the follow‐ing definitions:

The Full‐Text Online Magazine

It is commonplace to talk about the “paperless society” and the “electronic society” and the “electronic magazine.” More paper has been wasted in writing about the demise of paper…

The New Men's Music

Tom Wilson Weinberg

Men's music? Isn't that what the popular music industry has always been? Rock, middle‐of‐the‐road, pop, jazz, punk, disco, and (yes!) classical—it's all part of a world every bit…

The Small Press Dilemma

In what has apparently become a tradition, Library Journal in its December 15 issue annually presents a “Small Press Roundup,” which purports to list and briefly annotate the 100…

American Housewifery, Part 2

In the last column, I reviewed some recent nonfiction works on the dilemma of the housewife. The fictional housewife has, I feel, as much to tell us—especially about the coping…

A Nation at Risk: Commissioned Papers and State Reports

A Nation at Risk, the National Commission on Excellence in Education report, has captured the interest of the educational community as well as the nation as a whole. Educational…

Drinking and Driving, Part 2

In addition to the publications on drinking and driving discussed in the last issue of Collection Building, a great many organizations and agencies are recognizing the magnitude…

ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited