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Each year, more than eighteen thousand visitors make their way into the United States History, Local History, and Genealogy Division of the New York Public Library, which contains reference works from every part of the world. Actively collecting since 1847, the division has acquired a reputation as one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in the nation.

This index accompanies the index that appeared in Reference Services Review 16:4 (1988). As noted in the introduction to that index, the articles in RSR that deal with specific reference titles can be grouped into two categories: those that review specific titles (to a maximum of three) and those that review titles pertinent to a specific subject or discipline. The index in RSR 16:4 covered the first category; it indexed, by title, all titles that had been reviewed in the “Reference Serials” and the “Landmarks of Reference” columns, as well as selected titles from the “Indexes and Indexers,” “Government Publications,” and “Special Feature” columns of the journal.