Reference Services Review: Volume 9 Issue 2

Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age

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Publishing the Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Charles Scribner

[The Dictionary of Scientific Biography, the “Landmark” reference work featured in this issue of RSR, is treated from two perspectives. Charles Scribner, Jr. describes the genesis…

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Sheldon T. Miller

The appearance of volume 16 of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (DSB), the index, marks an important milestone in the life of the major reference tool in the history of…

Current Survey of American History Reference Sources

Gary Barber

This year's survey focuses on reference works published in 1980. The two exceptions, reviewed in Part Two, were deemed too important to omit (Women's History Sources; A Guide to

Current Survey of Reference Sources in Pop, Rock and Jazz

David D. Ginsburg

It's been three years since my previous survey in RSR. Superb reference books in pop music have been appearing so frequently that I've been having trouble keeping up. Let's hope…

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The Social Sciences Index: A Review of Recent Changes

Jean Herold, Frederic Messick

The various indexes published by the H.W. Wilson Company are now helping a fourth generation of library users to find articles in hundreds of periodicals and journals. One Wilson…

Reference Management

Susan Vaughn

Union Catalog A Checklist and Union Catalog of Holdings of Major Library Catalogs in METRO Libraries. $10.00, $15.00 is invoice is required. Mimeographed. (METRO Miscellaneous…

Health Information for the Layman

Daphne Pringle, Karin Wiseman

Librarians in all varieties of institutions, as well as public and academic libraries, are being asked for information on disease and health. We are becoming acutely aware of the…

Library Orientation and Instruction — 1980

Hannelore B. Rader

The following annotated bibliography of materials on orienting users to the library and on instructing them in the use of reference and other resources covers publications from…

Government publications

Steven Zink

The federal government is frequently described as being the greatest information producer (in volume, if nothing else) in the world. Yet, the fact is often ignored that the…

Reference serials

Ellen De Marnis

MEDICINE ‐ HISTORY ‐ BIBLIOGRAPHY Current Work in the History of Medicine. 1954‐ . Q. $12.50. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BP…

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ISSN:

0090-7324

e-ISSN:

2054-1716

ISSN-L:

0090-7324

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein