Collection Building: Volume 1 Issue 3

The Alternative Press and Libraries

Elliott Shore

Where in our library collections will we find information on Jimmy Carter's membership in the Trilateral Commission? Can we answer a reference question on the effects of…

At What Age Freedom?

Gerald R. Shields, John Robotham

At what age should children and teenagers have access to certain subject materials and/or the adult collection in libraries? Parents, school teachers and administrators, organized…

On Aging—Where Are the Advocates? An Annotated Bibliography

Renee Feinberg, Rita Auerbach

It is customary these days to denounce our society for its unconscionable neglect of the elderly, while we look back romantically to some indeterminate past when the elderly were…

Systematic Weeding: A Report on the Weeding Project of the Kenosha Public Library

George C. Hammond, Ginnie Cooper

If you are a gardener, you know the value of weeding. If you are a librarian, you may not. Utilizing CETA funds, the much‐needed systematic weeding of the entire collection of the…

Community Health Care: A Bibliographic Essay

Thomas Blumenthal

An analysis of community health, its history, successes and failures, depends on an understanding of its scope, but there is little consensus as to precisely what the discipline…

Developing a Genealogy Collection: Some Initial Considerations

Mary Kaufman

Genealogy is thought to be the third most popular hobby in the United States today. Considering the recent impact of Roots, there is every indication it will remain so. A strong…

Free and Inexpensive Materials

Kathleen Weibel

Food. Hunger. Nutrition. Eating. These are related topics of concern to each of us—including the producers of free and inexpensive materials. Bargain‐material producers…