Collection Building: Volume 6 Issue 2
Table of contents
Collection Development and the College Library: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review
Mickey MoskowitzCollection development literature has burgeoned over the past decade, yet the complaint is still heard that college libraries are not engaged in meaningful collection development…
Bibliography and the Beginning Bibliographer
Charles D'AnielloThis essay is offered as advice to those who contemplate becoming or have recently become bibliographers. I begin with the admonition that neither users' studies, statistical…
Literary Reviews
Never try to make things easier for the reader,” says E.M. Cioran in Translations, and although this may not be the mission of most literary reviews, of which Translations is a…
The Comics Alternative
Randall W. ScottSoon after the first regularly published newsstand comic book went on sale in 1934, and especially by 1938 with the arrival of Superman in Action Comics #1, comic books were…
Trouble in Kiddyland: The Hidden Costs of OP. and O.S.
Early in March 1984, between two blizzards that struck the Midwest only a few days apart, I was in Indianapolis to address a group of public and school librarians on “The…
American Short Stories
Rhea Joyce RubinBernard Malamud said “…a short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime. The drama is tense, happens fast, and is more often than not outlandish. In a few pages…
Life After 40, Part 2
When Ezra Tull, in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, discovers a lump on his thigh, “The word cancer came on its own, as if someone had whispered it into his ear…
An Alternative for Health Care: HMOs
The spiraling cost of health care is emerging as one of the country's most urgent problems and a major domestic political issue. In the 1940s, prepaid medical care provided by…