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DURING the latter part of 1980 I read a number of articles dealing with the subject of obituaries. The first, in time and in professional interest, was by Edward Dudley in the Library Association record — which he edited for nine years. It is good to see that he now has time to take a critical look at some sections of that journal, starting (LAR September 1980 p423) with the obituaries.

Recently, questionnaires from two reference book publishers were received by the Perkins Library Reference Department at Duke University. One questionnaire described new reference serials which were being considered as possible publications, while the other was a “user needs survey” of a standard reference serial. Both questionnaires were examples of ways in which reference librarians can have direct input into the creation (or non‐creation) of new reference sources and the improvement of already existing reference tools.