Reference Services Review: Volume 22 Issue 1

Norman Stevens: Au Revoir and Toodle‐oo!

Sarah Barbara Watstein

The following remarks are dedicated to Norman D. Stevens, director of the Molesworth Institute, in anticipation of his retirement from the hustle bustle world of academia. They…

Technologycal challenges to artists' rights in the age of multimedia: The future role of moral rights

Kathleen Lu

A great artist creates a mural which, bearing his name, eventually reaches the hands of a purchaser who objects to the nude figures that the creator had seen fit to incorporate…

Campuswide access to OCLC's firstsearch: A study of use at the University of Minnesota

Sandra Moline, James Cogswell, Phyllis Reich, Kathryn Robbins, M.J. Rossman

In October 1991, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) introduced FirstSearch, an online reference product designed for the end‐user. Through a menu interface, which features…

Character, virtue, and self‐interest in the ethics of the medical profession: Part i: The erosion of virtue and the rise of self‐interest

Edmund D. Pellegrino, Richard A. Gray

A species of moral malaise afflicts the professions today, a malaise that may prove fatal to their moral identities and perilous to our whole society. It is manifest in a growing…

The making of a scholarly research atlas: The historical atlas of Canada

Anne B. Piternick

In the fall of 1987, the first of three volumes of a scholarly research atlas—The Historical Atlas of Canada—was published to great acclaim. Describing the Atlas as “the most…

Ecology and ethics: Is there a duty to nature?

Richard A. Gray

Plato and Aristotle would have found the modern effort to fuse ethics and ecology to be incomprehensible. Despite the fact that oikos—meaning house or household—is a Greek word…

Searching electronic databases to locate tests and measures

Susan Voge

Requests for tests and measuring instruments for use in class assignments and faculty and student research are both familiar and frustrating to most academic librarians. In…

Automating your ready‐reference file

Joy Thomas, Stephen P. Sottong

Many libraries, public, academic, or special, no matter how technologically advanced, maintain a finger‐marked, dog‐eared file at the reference desk. This file, usually on…