Reference Services Review: Volume 11 Issue 1

Cast Away on a Desert(ed) Island: Ten Reference Books

A.J. Walford

I picture the island to be at latitude 20° south of the equator, and sufficiently large to have a three‐mile perimeter (for jogging) and an amount of high ground (for hill‐walking…

State Government Reference Publications

John V. Richardson

At the dining room table in a modest house in Sonyea, New York, Bohdan Wynar and David Parish worked to edit the latter's manuscript on state government publications. The…

The Afro‐American Woman: Researching Her History

Janet L. Sims‐Wood

Life studies are a rich source for further research on the role of the Afro‐American woman in society. They are especially useful to gain a better understanding of the…

Psychology: A Selective Interdisciplinary Guide

Larry S. Perry

Psychology, the scientific study of the mind and of behavior, has experienced a rapid professional growth during the past 30 years. The number of research articles published each…

Bilingual Education: A Current Survey of Reference Sources

George Jaramillo

The practice of bilingual education in the United States has been discussed since the 1920s. During the 1920s and early 1930s several states taught in the native language or…

Library Guides and Handbooks

Edgar C. Bailey

Most academic libraries probably have in their collections, either in reference or as circulating titles, several of the works generally and rather imprecisely known as library…

Canadian Almanacs and Statistical Compendia

Milton H. Crouch

The purpose of this presentation is to identify the most useful statistical publications concerning Canada that are published in Canada. Titles discussed are organized by broad…

Sexual Harrassment: A. Guide to the Literature

M. Dawn McCaghy

“Virtuous women are seldom accosted by unwelcome sexual propositions or familiarities, obscene talk, or profane language,” proclaims Phyllis Schlafly. “Men hardly ever ask sexual…

Reference Serials

Margaret G. Bronner, Evelyn Haynes, Roberta MacArthur, Mel Westerman, Carol J. Vetich, Anne Eriksen

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES — UNITED STATES — DIRECTORIES Federal Yellow Book; A Loose‐Leaf Directory of Federal Departments and Agencies. 1976‐ . Updates are issued every two months…

Interlibrary Loan: The RLIN Subsystem

Stanley Nash

In the fall of 1982 the RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) computer system, which serves the Research Libraries Group (RLG) incorporated a new interlibrary loan…

The Official Washington Post Index: A Brief Overview

Michele A. Jacobson, R.D. Vollmar

On 1 January 1979 Research Publications initiated publication of the Washington Post on microfilm. The Washington Post Index, published as a joint effort with Newspaper Archive…

The Librarian As Entrepreneur Indexer

Maureen Fennie‐Collura

“Where HAS that book been reviewed?” This question seemed to arise daily during my work as Adult Services Consultant for an upstate New York library system. Since I was…

Illustrated Reference Books: Technological, Intellectual and Economic Developments

Charles A. Bunge

At one time, reference librarians considered a good illustrated reference book to be one in which the plates were bound near the text they illustrated, rather than all together at…

JPRS And FBIS Translations: Polycentrism At The Reference Desk

Bruce Morton

This paper discusses the potential and responsibility of the Reference Librarian to contribute a polycentric perspective to information seekers. Because our society is essentially…