Reference Services Review: Volume 12 Issue 2

Rice, Reason, and Roses: Reference Rations on a Deserted Island

Richard S. Halsey

If stranded on a desert island, which ten sources would I pick to take with me to form a core reference collection? As I pondered Jim Rettig's question, my reading of its meaning…

The Reference Librarian as “the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures”

James Rettig

That librarianship has become, in the words of the cliche, a world of “bits and bytes” is itself a cliche. Librarians who admit that they were originally attracted to the field by…

Electronic Libraries: What Price Research?

Izabella Taler

Improving the means of document delivery has been a traditional concern to library administrators. Two other concerns have been the speedy identification of and the locating of…

Grant Money and How to Get It: Sources of Information

Ruth Dickstein, Robert Mitchell

If being funded for research or other projects were as easy as locating books on finding and writing grants, the grant seeking process would be greatly simplified. In the 1982–83…

Physical Anthropology Literature: Online Access

Judith B. Droessler, Cindy Wilke

Online bibliographic databases are currently available for a wide range of disciplines. At the present time, however, there is no online database devoted specifically to…

Birds of a Feather: A Covey of Field Guides

Janet Klaas

Birding, the active seeking out and identification of birds, is a wide‐spread and fast growing avocation on this continent, and indeed throughout the world. Jon Rickert's A Guide…

Black and White on Film: The Afro‐American Experience and the Movies

Charles D'Aniello

A picture is worth a thousand words; a motion picture is probably worth even more. The black experience in America is reflected both in movies with black themes and in white or…

Reference Serials

Judith B. Quinlan, La Verne Winn, Jyoti Pandit, Sharon Britton, Carol J. Veitch, Brenda Coven, Gordon W. Miller, Evelyn Haynes

This is my last column as editor of “Reference Serials.” All correspondence regarding this column should now be sent to the new editor: Virginia A. Gilbert, Editor, “Reference…

Library Orientation and Instruction — 1983

Hannelore B. Rader

The following annotated list of materials on providing library orientation to users and instructing them in library and information skills is the tenth annual review of this…

Resources For and About Lesbian and Gay Youth: An Annotated Survey

Edward C. Paolella

Within the past few years, responsible educators, librarians, parents, counselors, social workers, therapists, and religious groups of all sexual persuasions and lifestyles have…

The Olympic Games: A Select Bibliography of Bibliographies

Evelyn S. Meyer

But if, my heart, you would speak of prizes won in the Games, look no more for another bright star by day in the empty sky more warming than the sun, nor shall we name any…

A Good Library Sign System: Is It Possible?

Peter R. van Allen

An unfortunate design paradox prevalent in many of America's libraries is that these bastions of well‐designed books, records, and pamphlets assault the user with a variety of…