Collection Building: Volume 13 Issue 4

Collection Evaluation in Women's Studies: One Model for Learning the Process

Cindy Faries

The one component of collection development most difficult for librarians is the evaluation of the collection. Various methods can be employed to evaluate the collection including…

Collection Development Issues of Academic and Public Lbraries: Converging or Diverging?

Kirsti Nilsen

“Public librarians are not interested in collection development issues.”

Selecting Fantasy Literature

Jeanette C. Smith

Ancient and universal, fantasy was most likely the first mainstream literature rather than the naturalism later recognized as mainstream. Every generation of every culture tells…

How Firm a Foundation: Getting Cooperative Preservation Off the Ground

Laurel Bowen, Nan McMurry

In recent years, preservation has been viewed as microfilming or other technical operations supervised by specialists in major research libraries. Smaller regional and local…

Librarians and Sexologists: Not So Strange Bedfellows

Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper

Based upon a presentation by Martha Cornog, presented as part of a pre‐conference, “When Sex is the Question: Who Asks? Who Answers?” sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Task Force…

Literary Magazines

To explore the edges of literature, one must look at contemporary literary reviews and journals. The themes and styles of writing in these reviews and journals reveal new ideas…

Multi‐Media Catalog Sources

Chris Dodge

Randy Pitman, an eloquent critic of librarians' print bias, has publicly noted a fact that should be obvious: referring to audiovisual materials in terms of what they are not…