Collection Building: Volume 8 Issue 3

Selecting New Right Materials: A Case Study

Robert M. Gorman

In the March 1983 issue of the Moral Majority Report, Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the new right movement, leveled a very serious charge at librarians: they are failing to…

The Role of Librarians in Implementing an Automated Information System

Nancy E. Wikholm

Implementing the United Technologies Online Catalog (UTOC) was greatly facilitated by the ability of each librarian involved in the process to develop a variety of skills…

Classical Music on CD's: Creating and Controlling the Collection

Robert Curtis

Developing a collection of compact disc sound recordings is beginning to emerge as a goal for many libraries, yet the commitment of resources and energy involved in this effort is…

An Inventory for the '80s

Claudia A. Spicer

In the autumn of 1984, Tutt Library at Colorado College decided to buck the trend among libraries and began an inventory of its main Dewey Decimal collection. Excluded from the…

The Genre of the Culinary Classic: The Works of Julia Child

Jean T. Kreamer

Long recognized as the darling of public television, Julia Child, the star of The French Chef, Julia and Company, and Dining with Julia (among other popular programs), is also an…

Costing Library Operations—A Bibliography

Lisa J. Aren, Susan J. Webreck, Mark Patrick

Although library costs continue to rise in respect to staff, materials, and general operating expenses, the budgets needed to maintain the expected level of services are not…

Housing Library Collections

Back in the days when absolutes were all the rage, a book was a book and we all knew how many it took to make an effective collection in a community of a given size. Knowing this…

The User Study, Conversation, and Reading the Newspaper

The other day, a librarian leaned over the reference desk and chatted with a bemused reader about a recent article in The New York Times. It could just as well have been a…

Senior Power

Fay M. Blake, H. Morton Newman

The year 1935 marked a significant change for America's elderly. In that year, Congress passed the Social Security Act, which provided federally funded old‐age benefits to workers…

Improving Services to the Deaf

Some facts about the deaf;