Collection Building: Volume 3 Issue 3
Table of contents
Bibliographic Control of AV Materials: Current Signs of the Integrative Approach to Access (A Very Condensed Overview)
Esther C.D. DoughtyPartly in the unfolding course of events and partly by intention, we in the transatlantic/English‐speaking region of the world now have an established and standard bibliographic…
Information Data‐base Services in the Small and Medium‐sized Public Library
Ruth EvelandWhile librarians have all too often given good reasons for the popular image of being years behind the times, surely few of us would deny that computers are going to mean…
List‐Checking as a Method for Evaluating Library Collections
Cynthia ComerThe most widely used method of qualitatively evaluating a library's collections is the list‐checking method, a process in which the library's holdings are compared with one or…
An Aged Book List Revisited: How Well Has It Held Up Over Half a Century?
Robert N. BroadusIn 1930, as the Great Depression was shifting into high gear, the American Library Association published a 64‐page booklet, 500 Books for the Senior High School Library, compiled…
Recent Trends in Religious Book Publishing
Judy McLain SaucierAn increasingly important division of today's American book publishing industry is the “religious book” market. The Association of American Publishers defines this division's…
Issues in Collection Development: Ready Reference Collections
Elizabeth FutasA ready reference collection, kept close to the reference desk and to the telephone, is composed of items which answer a myriad of questions asked by either walk‐in patrons or…
Alternative Periodicals in England
Elliott ShoreMore than the previous two columns, this list is highly suspect. It represents what I like to read from England, what I could get my hands on, and what could serve as a core…
Free and Inexpensive Materials on Death and Dying
Ilse B. MoonOnce a taboo subject, death and dying has been considered not only a possible but a healthy topic of discussion since the pioneering work of Dr. Elizabeth Kübler‐Ross with dying…
Notes on Contributors and Editorial Board
SHERRIE S. BERGMAN is College Librarian of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She served previously as director of the Roger Williams College Library and on the library…