Reference Services Review: Volume 15 Issue 4

Delivering Reference Information Through a Campus Network: Carnegie Mellon's Library Information System

Nancy Evans, Thomas Michalak

The Carnegie Mellon University Library Information System (LIS), introduced in March 1986, is one of the most popular services the university libraries have offered. Distributed…

What's That Doing Here? Non‐Bibliographic Data in a Bibliographic Environment

Ted Koppel, Ward Shaw

Thirty thousand people, using more than 450 active terminals, perform hundreds of thousands of searches daily on the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) Public Access…

PC INFO: he Information and Referral Software for Microcomputers

Linda N. Ross

As the cost of powerful microcomputer hardware continues to decrease each year, the demand for sophisticated software designed to take advantage of these low cost machines…

Developing a Human Services Taxonomy: A Case Study

Georgia Sales

As information technology has become increasingly accessible and familiar, and as the benefits have become increasingly well understood, the public's expectations and demands for…

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): An Annotated Bibliography for Librarians

Edmund F. SantaVicca

The quantity and scope of the information that has materialized so far on the subject of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) has increased significantly since the first…

Building an AIDS Resource File: A Rationale and a Model

Edmund F. SantaVicca

The body of literature on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) has increased so dramatically over the past six years that it may now easily overwhelm the student or…

AIDS Information Access: Reference, Referral, and Education in the Library Setting

Edmund F. SantaVicca

Although the Public Health Service has identified AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) as the number one priority among public health concerns in the United States, and the…

William Langer's An Encyclopedia of World History

Brian E. Coutts

Shortly after I arrived in Baton Rouge to begin studies toward a Ph.D. in history in the early 1970s, I was assigned the dubious task of giving lectures and grading examinations…

Rankings: A Selected Bibliography

Judith K. Ohles

Bestsellers, the weekly Top 40, Fortune 500, Places Rated Almanac are just a few of the ranked lists available that fascinate and thrill almost every‐one. These lists often…