Collection Building: Volume 6 Issue 3

For Collection Development Officers: An Introduction to Government Publications

Steven D. Zink

There is very likely a place in your library that is far outside your control as a collection development librarian. From all appearances, the materials in this place are…

Technical Services and Collection Development for Children's Libraries

Sheila S. Intner

What has technical services to do with collection development for children's collections—or any other kind of collections for that matter? Isn't technical services what happens…

Collection Development Policy Making: Research, Design, and Implementation at Texas A&M University

Mary Kay Donahue, Deborah Brown, Suzanne Gyeszly

The magnitude of Texas A&M's revision of its collection policy is evident in the doubling of the student population to 36,000 over ten years and a 69 percent collection growth to…

Finding Out About Grants: A Guide to Information Resources

Topsy N. Smalley

For individuals and organizations who seek grant money, this guide details major information resources useful to identifying sources of financial sponsorship. It covers grants…

Who Lost Paul Corey?

Robert S. Bravard

Every serious reader is aware of the literary career of Herman Melville: early fame, death in obscurity in 1891, triumphant revival as a, possibly the, major American novelist in…

The Comix Alternative

Randall W. Scott

Comic books, especially if printed in black and white, are a relatively cheap communication and entertainment medium. This means that poor people (including kids) can afford them…

Bargains or Bummers? Remainders

In the November 23, 1984, issue of Publishers Weekly, Paul Nathan in his “Rights” column noted that the latest Stephen King novel, The Talisman, co‐authored with Peter Straub)…

American Housewifery, Part 1

A housewife is just a housewife, that's all. Low on the totem pole. I can read the paper and find that out….Somebody who goes out and works for a living is more important than…

Drinking and Driving, Part 1

The shocking statistics of the human and financial toll taken by drunk drivers are at last impinging on the public consciousness: at least 50 percent of all highway deaths involve…