Collection Building: Volume 10 Issue 3/4
Table of contents
Serials Review in the Humanities: A Three‐Year Project
Lois Olsrud, Anne MooreMany libraries have been affected by the proliferation and price inflation of serial publications in recent years. Academic libraries have been especially hard‐hit since they are…
Problem Librarians Make Problems for Humanists
J. Wesley MillerProblem librarianship in weeding book collections has reached epidemic proportions with serious short‐ and long‐range ramifications for everyone, especially for scholars in the…
Survival Weeding
Cathy CareyMost small to medium‐sized public libraries are not depositories, research facilities, or storage places, but rather somewhere between these and a bookstore operation. To best…
Southern Belles and Hussies in Modern Drama: Enhancing Women's Collections
Vaughan B. BakerImagine a southern belle—sweet, submis‐sive, and charming with her flattering ways and soft drawl. Now conjure up a hussy— lewd, loud, brassy, or perhaps just self‐centered and…
Aging Womanhood
Helen R. WheelerWhen I was young, new students addressed me as “Miss Wheeler”; when I became middle‐aged, “Mrs. Wheeler,” while all around me they called men of all ages “Dr.” and “Professor.”…
Documenting Religious Activity in Nonreligious Repositories
Sherry Sherrod DuPreeIn 1981, when I was a reference librarian at the University of Florida, the lack of adequate African‐American primary resources provoked me to initiate the National…
Coming Out: The Information Needs of Lesbians
Janet A.E. Creelman, Roma M. HarrisAccording to Sasha Alyson, collections development librarians have a responsibility to provide books that address the needs of the estimated 10 percent of the population who are…
Multicultural Library Services: A New Zealand View
Roy CarrollThe New Zealand population is gradually changing from one where those of European background have been in a majority and have had almost total control over the legal, business…
Pro‐Cite as a Management Tool for a Travel and Tourism Collection
Julia M. Rholes, Suzanne D. GyeszlyOne of the fastest growing sectors of the United States economy is the service industry, and tourism is almost the largest segment of this business. Tourists spent $17.3 billion…
Networking and Cooperative Collection Management— The Illinois Experience
Terry L. WeechEfforts to initiate cooperative collection management have evolved from two distinct networking contexts in Illinois. The earliest was the Illinois Library and Information Network…
The Allure of the New Books Section
The other day someone sent me a pin that reads: “So many books…so little time.” Hardly a new idea, but it's a gentle reminder of a couple of things. First, not even the most…
The Central American Resource Center
Pam KeeseyWith the success of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979 and the ensuing Reagan Doctrine of the 1980's, Central America has become an area of much debate in the United States…
Looking Back at the 1980s: A Dismal Decade for Building Collections
For those whose job it is to obtain material for library collections, the last decade has surely been one of the most frustrating in living memory. A number of unfortunate trends…
Zen and the Art of Barcoding
I have a friend in Pennsylvania who stoutly refuses to believe that when asked by strangers what I do for a living, I say that I'm a librarian. “Nonsense,” she says, “you're a…
U.S. Government Documents, Legislative Branch, on AIDS, 1986–1989
Scott G. BurghIn Collection Building, Vol. 8, No. 4, a bibliography of U.S. government publications on AIDS from 1981 to September 1986 appeared. This annotated bibliography updates that work…