Reference Services Review: Volume 28 Issue 1

The Minnesota tobacco trial, 1994‐1998

Caroline Lilyard, Anita M. Anderson

Briefly highlights the recent lawsuit between the state of Minnesota and seven corporations or organizations promoting the sale of tobacco. Sources for research on the Minnesota…

Tobacco and public policy in the USA

Eunice Bisbee Johnson

Focuses on information resources for US public policy concerning tobacco. Aspects of public policy are addressed under the following general topic areas: tobacco as an…

Litigation against US tobacco companies

Suzanne Thorpe

Briefly highlights the history of litigation against tobacco companies in the USA. Introduces the legal issues brought before the courts, the parties involved and the outcome of…

FALCON: an interactive library instruction tutorial

Stefanie Dennis, Kelly Broughton

Bowling Green State University Jerome Library’s Web tutorial, FALCON, models a standard library instructional session on the use of the library’s Web‐based catalog. Tutorials can…

Reference librarians and the Internet: a qualitative study

Mark Stover

Reference librarians must interact daily with Internet‐based technologies. Communicating with others through listservs and e‐mail, avoiding information overload, answering…

Authoring specialized Web sites: the Education Book Reviews Web site

Katherine Corby, Steven Sowards

The online worlds of education and business increasingly converge. Rather than fear competition for readers from the commercial sector, academic Internet authors can respect and…

Intellectual freedom: 2000 and beyond

Terri L. Holtze, Terri L. Holtze, Hannelore B. Rader

For more than 200 years, intellectual freedom has been a constitutional right of US citizens and the world’s oldest democracy. Librarians in particular have helped to protect this…

Research in undergraduate mathematics education

Cecelia M. Brown, Teri J. Murphy

Research in undergraduate mathematics education (RUME), the study of teaching and learning of college mathematics, is a new area of research in mathematics. Information to support…

Healthcare information delivery in public libraries: implications for academic reference librarians

Lothar Spang, Lynda M. Baker

Changes in the US healthcare system in the past 20 years have meant increasing pressure on consumers to find their own healthcare information. Their search, amid an ever‐widening…

Small business resources on the World Wide Web: an evaluative guide

Susan C. Awe

Small business is vitally important to the USA and the global economy and small business owner/managers and entrepreneurs need education, guidance and support to be successful…