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IN HIS RECENT ARTICLE 'THROWING OUT Belles Lettres with the Bathwater,' J. Wesley Miller expresses contempt for weeding practices followed in today's libraries. 'An infestation of boors has taken control [...]

ALA STRATEGIC LONG-RANGE PLAN MISSION, PRIORITY AREAS, GOALS At the 1986 Annual Conference in New York the ALA Council will be asked to adopt a strategic long-range plan for the [...]

Computer-power euphoria is overshadowing most other issues in information services. To many participants, the computer is an information panacea. In the reference department, computerized database searching is regarded by some [...]

Reference work translates resources into service, and the reference collection is one of the primary resources of effective service. Reference collection use at the Iowa State University library was studied [...]

Online Searching for End Users: An Information Sourcebook. By Fred Batt. Phoenix: Oryx, 1988. 116p. $37.50 (ISBN 0-89774-394-6). LC 87-32443. As the first in the Oryx Sourcebook Series in Computer [...]

Grubby young seekers of knowledge (and frogs) may need a librarian IT'S HAPPENED TO US ALL. A small patron with a beaming face comes into the library clutching a jar, [...]

INTRODUCTION This article begins a series to discuss machine readable data files (MRDFs) which are accessible by microcomputer and adaptable to library applications. The series will include a selected bibliography [...]

Marcia Thomas, former Head of Adult Services at Bloomington Public Library, IL, is now director of Illinois' Eureka Public Libraiy. Despite the reservations of some critics, CD-ROM technology has been [...]

Uncover, OPACs, NeXT, Kids, and More The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) has a product that's positively going to be a big hit in a wide range of libraries. [...]

People The SilverPlatter organization was founded in 1983 as the first company specifically set up to address CD-ROM technology. Today, SilverPlatter is made up of over 50 people with offices [...]

Business, Technology & Transportation Publications Added to NEXIS McGraw-Hill News, a business news service featuring detailed analysis of key events, is now available on NEXIS. Distrubted by McGraw-Hill Inc. of [...]

Computers and Reference Service Within library automation, library reference service has been found the most difficult to automate. Why? Because the novel questions often presented and fresh thinking required are [...]

Floyd C. Dickman is the Library Development Consultant Administrator for the State Library of Ohio. The Problem of Illiteracy Over the past decade our society has been inundated with articles, [...]

The Intelligent Reference Information System In 1989, the University Libraries of the University of Houston were awarded a $99,852 Research and Demonstration Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's College [...]

Producing In-House Indexes at Texas A&M To improve bibliographic access to specific materials held in the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University, three indexes were produced by the [...]

This Guide, published, printed, and written by Third World journalists, provides ' alternative information on the reality, the aspirations and struggles of emerging nations. ' First published in Spanish in [...]

Baseball Card Price Guide Basseball card collecting has been a favored hobby of both children and adults for over 100 years and is now more popular than ever. What has [...]

Baseball Autograph Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Authentication and Valuation of Hall of Fame Autographs. Baseball card collecting has been a favored hobby of both children and adults for over [...]

Beyond the Catalog: Software for Non-Book Access The Resource Center of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has implemented an automated library system using Sydney software, distributed by [...]

Past Meets Future in Alexandria Library Revival The site of one of the most ancient libraries will soon be the site of one of the most modern, according to planners [...]

After every revision of the Copyright Act (and in some ways, since the enactment of the first U.S. copyright law in 1790), it has been necessary for the courts and [...]

Two Major Canadian Libraries Choose INNOPAC Access to the library collection of the National Gallery of Canada will soon be available through the INNOPAC system. The new system will support [...]

Mistakes are inevitable in any occupation. Riemer reminds us that the only way to avoid a mistake on the job is not work. [1] The more often one performs a [...]

The proliferation and growing importance of information in contemporary society has brought with it an urgent need for people to become independent users of information. 'Information-seeking' skills are essential if [...]

The R.E. Gibson Library maintains a collection of books and journals to support the activities of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), a division of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Run [...]

The online information service of the American Library Association, ALANET, has made additional services available to its subscribers. These include CHOICE reference reviews, with evaluative information about current and forthcoming [...]

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One of the deservedly lesser known facts of library history is that, having broken my knee by a fall in front of a bar, I, as a young library school [...]

We find ourselves in an era of rethinking, reenvisioning, retooling, and reinventing. Technological developments have provided much of the impetus for revisiting abiding verities amidst new challenges. Professions, industries, government, [...]

1.0 INTRODUCTION Library users need information in order to make decisions. They have a right to gain access to any published information available in library collections. Staff are responsible for [...]

An index to the authors and published works covered in every literary series published by Gale Research will soon be available on CD-ROM. Literary Series Master index, available in December, [...]

The Library of Congress' American Memory Project is a visionary multimedia collection of electronic archival materials searchable by microcomputer. Its development began in 1990, and the first laserdisc and CD-ROM [...]

In September 1990 the Grasselli Library of John Carroll University selected a database of journal citations to add to our online public access catalog (OPAC). The primary contenders then were [...]

Prepared by the Genealogy Committee of the History. Section of the Reference and Adult Setraces Division of the American Library Association. Reviewed and approved by the ALA Standards Committee and [...]

John Culshaw is central reference librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During the 1980s librarians began to jump on the CD-ROM bandwagon. Most of the workstations put into [...]

Citations to more than eight million biographies from Gale's RASD Biography and Genealogy Master Index will soon be available on CD-ROM. BGMI CD-ROM, due out in December, will contain the [...]

Waggener Edstro (WE), the public relations firm which handles the Microsoft account, recently published a paper on visual information systems. Intended to promote Microsoft's new Interactive Home Systems, Inc. (IHS) [...]

Prepared by the Liaison with Users Committee, Collection Development and Evaluation Section, Reference and Adult Services Division, American Library Association. Reviewed by the ALA Standards Committee and approved by the [...]

The weary online warrior is beginning to stumble down the aisles, laden with handouts, product catalogs, and business cards. On the last day of the Online conference, unable to carry [...]

The time of the electronic library appears to have come, at least from the ferment in publishers' offices, network design committees, and the library literature. Although the Memex Research Institute [...]

The reserve room of a library is usually one of the most restricted areas in a library. Patrons usually have to come to the library in person to use reserve [...]

Expanding electronic access to information is extending our reach beyond the walls of our libraries. The increasing number of full-text databases makes it possible to locate and retrieve relevant articles [...]

Gale Research has recently released two new disc products, Gale's Literary Index (GLI) and Biography and Geneology Master Index (BGMI). GLI is an index to the authors and published works [...]