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Examines the contribution of the library to Old Dominion University’s five‐year strategic plan, which targeted cultural diversity as one of its eight objectives and included specific statements about library support of this goal. To meet its part, the library created a three‐pronged action plan for the selection of videos, development of guides to the collection, and an evaluation of the multicultural collection, the most extensive portion of the project. Explains the choice of university minority and international student populations to assist in prioritizing collection efforts. The actual assessment project was collection‐centered; project coordinators identified a series of appropriate bibliographies to compare against the collection as the most practical way to meet defined objectives.The resulting retrospective desiderata list identified resources (once funding became available) to improve both the depth and scope of the library multicultural collections with very little impact on staffing.

New Age philosophies are having an increasingly important influence on contemporary life. They offer a challengingly holistic view of human potential, and are available in numerous publications and formats. Public library collections often marginalize New Age materials, and find selecting and acquiring them a challenge. Argues that greater awareness of what such materials have to offer would answer growing demands from users and provide spiritual and cultural benefit for the community.

With generous support from Congress and the American people, the Library of Congress has become the largest library in the world. Its extensive and varied publishing programs reflect the growing demands of its many and diverse consituencies; the innovative uses of new technologies; and the institution’s efforts, especially in the last decade, to reach broader and more general audiences. Recent projects include the first steps in digitizing and making available selected portions of the Library’s historical collections; the first sustained effort to develop cooperative endeavors with trade publishers; and the launching ofCivilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress. This brief history outlines the evolution of publishing at the Library of Congress, from an eight-page booklist published in 1801 to the cooperative public-private programs and electronic products of the 1990s.

Since high school students use both public libraries and media centers for school assignments, this research examined those collections in three separate communities for books relevant to the high school curriculum. Both textbook bibliographies of recommended titles and subject searches of term paper topics were used to identify appropriate titles for English and science courses. Public libraries and media centers both have titles that are appropriate and available for use in the preparation of term papers. Public library collections have quantitatively more titles, while media centers have significantly more books when proportions are compared When textbook bibliographers were searched, there was no discernible pattern in the titles found: Both types of collections have some of the books. In order to devise a collection development strategy, reviews were located for as many of the science textbook titles as possible. Science Books and Films and Choice should be used to identify and purchase science title...

Reviews the publication of the Bodleian Library pre-1920 Catalogue on CD-ROM. Notes that this database provides a significant enhancement to the apparatus available to facilitate retrospective bibliographic searching by providing a key to the collections of another great UK deposit library. Outlines the work carried out over a 60 year period to improve the catalogue in various ways, focusing particularly on the great efforts made to generate computerized cataloguing records. Briefly describes the operation and searching characteristics of the database; noting that complicated searches tend to yield high recall but low precision but simple

Much of the professional literature is devoted to major university and research libraries. Consequently, less information is available about the staffing, services, budgets, collections, and facilities of smaller academic libraries. This study addresses that need and offers an initial statistical and demographic profile of the four-year liberal arts college library.

PURPOSE: The research assesses the impact of online journals on citation patterns by examining whether researchers were more likely to limit the resources they cited to those journals available online rather than those only in print. SETTING: Publications from a large urban university with a medical college at an urban location and at a smaller regional location were examined. The number of online journals available to authors on either campus was the same. The number of print journals available on the large campus was much greater than the print journals available at the small campus. METHODOLOGY: Searches by author affiliation from 1996 to 2005 were performed in the Web of Science to find all articles written by affiliated members in the college of medicine at the selected institution. Cited references from randomly selected articles were recorded, and the cited journals were coded into five categories based on their availability at the study institution: print only, print and online, online only, not owned, and dropped. Results were analyzed using SPSS. The age of articles cited for selected years as well as for 2006 and 2007 was also examined. RESULTS: The number of journals cited each year continued to increase. On the large urban campus, researchers were not more likely to cite journals available online or less likely to cite journals only in print. At the regional location, at which the number of print-only journals was minimal, use of print-only journals significantly decreased. CONCLUSION/DISCUSSION: The citation of print-only journals by researchers with access to a library with a large print and electronic collection appeared to continue, despite the availability of potential alternatives in the online collection. Journals available in electronic format were cited more frequently in publications from the campus whose library had a small print collection, and the citation of journals available in both print and electronic formats generally increased over the years studied.

Due to current military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been a renewed interest in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its presentation in military personnel. This bibliography lists citations for books, documents, articles, audiovisuals, and Internet sites related to this topic. Specifically, the cited items focus on PTSD resulting from combat exposure in current and past military engagements and peacekeeping operations. The majority of the items cited are dated 1990 to the present. A few notable exceptions include materials concerning PTSD in veterans of the Vietnam War. The links to the web sites included in this bibliography were active as of 16 November 2005. All items are available in the U.S. Army War College Library collection or can be accessed from the Internet. For readers' convenience, call numbers or Internet addresses were added at the end of each book or document entry. (Call numbers indicate the item's shelf location in the War College library.) This bibliography also is available on the Internet through the library's home page at .

Many libraries, museums, galleries, and heritage centres are thinking of using electronic media to help them to achieve some of their aims, and a much smaller number have started to put these plans into practice. One such project is the Wellcome Institute Library's Iconographic Collections Videodisc, which has been up and running since June 1993, available to the public free of charge and without appointment at the Wellcome Building in London.

Electronic information and the growth of networks are beginning to have a major impact upon the process of scholarly communication and the development and management of library serial collections. This paper examines the various types of electronic serials currently available and discusses issues relating to storage, access, selection, acquisition, bibliographical control, training and resource allocation. Discussion of current alerting and document supply services (CASIAS) highlights the impact such services are having on library serial holdings and collections.

Objective – To determine whether and how Danish university and higher education students use public libraries for study purposes. Design – Online survey. Setting – Post-secondary students in Denmark. Subjects – 1,575 students in university-level programs or other higher education programs (vocational three-to-four-year programs) in Denmark. Methods – A sample of students was drawn from the national database of students by selecting every student born on the 15th of every month (approximately 4,900 students). A letter describing the study and with an invitation to fill out an online questionnaire was sent to all students in the sample. There were 1,694 valid responses (approximately 35% response rate). Students following short vocational programs were deemed to be under-represented and these subjects were omitted from the analysis of this report, which reflects the response of 1,575 students. The online questionnaire gathered demographic details (gender, age, educational institution, study topic, study year, geographical location, access to the Internet, etc.) and used 110 questions or statements to gather information about student information-seeking behaviour related to study purposes. These included use of the physical library and satisfaction with services, use of search engines, awareness and use of library Web-based services, study behaviour, and participation in information literacy activities. Main results – For the purposes of this study, “academic library is used as a generic term covering university libraries, research libraries, educational libraries and all other kind of libraries outside the field of public libraries” (p. 278). The survey results confirmed many of the previous international reports of student information-seeking behaviour: 85% of students use the academic library for study purposes; fewer than 10% of all students are able to cope without any library use; students in technology and engineering, the sciences and arts, architecture and music have a higher rate of non-use of their academic libraries; a large percentage of students access the electronic resources from home; the physical library is still considered important to students; Google is used extensively and is nearly the exclusive choice for search engine. The public library is used for study purposes by about 58 percent of all students with the highest use (76%) by students in higher education institutions (HEI); students of education, social topics and psychology are very frequent public library users. Female students in HEI were the most frequent users of the public library independent of study subject or year, or any other demographic variable. Seven per cent of students rely exclusively on the public library for study purposes and first-year HEI students in the subject areas of education, social topics and psychology are over-represented in this group (which additionally has less Internet access from home than the other students). Students perceive nearly all aspects of service in the academic library as superior; HEI students rate ambience, electronic resources and speed of inter-library loan provision in the public library as higher than the academic. University students give a low rating to the collections of public library, although the students use the public library principally to supplement the collections available in their academic libraries. Another high use of public libraries by HEI students is for inter-library loans placed through the national resource sharing system. Public library reference services are used often by only one per cent of students and only two per cent use the public library on a regular basis for “study related group activities.” Conclusion – Students use physical libraries to a great extent to support their studies and students have embraced digital access to collections, especially access from home. Google is the most heavily used search engine and is used by nearly all students; use of Google complements and supplements library use. Nearly 60% of all students use public libraries for study purposes and to supplement the collections of their academic library, but they find that the public library collections are insufficient to meet their needs. The inter-library loan policies of public libraries are more lenient and accommodating to student needs and may drive the high use of public libraries. Students form a large constituency of the public library user population and they generally rate most aspects of service as substandard to those of academic libraries. There is a call for review of the public library’s role in meeting the information needs of students, and in particular, those of HEI programs who are most dependent on the public library.

For most of the 400 years of the Bodleian Library's existence, users have had to travel to Oxford to use its collections. In recent years, Oxford has undertaken a number of focused, 'boutique' digitisation projects. Now, as a partner in the Google Library Project, an immense range of scholarly and other 19th century out-of-copyright library materials from the Bodleian's collections will be digitised en masse and will be made freely available over the internet to anyone who has Web access. Millions of books and journals will be scanned in the course of the project and the author contends that digitisation on such a scale represents a revolution in the dissemination of information that parallels the impact of the invention of printing from moveable type in the 15th century.

Homeland Security is one of the special themes of the U.S. Army War College curriculum. Homeland Security: A Selected Bibliography was complied to support that theme. It includes topics that reflect some of homeland security's many challenges: organizational structure, national security concerns, domestic preparedness, intelligence support, terrorism, and the military's role. The majority of the books, documents, and periodical articles cited are dated 2003 to the present. For information prior to this period, please refer to the previous edition of Homeland Security: A Selected Bibliography (May 2003), compiled by Jacqueline S. Bey. All items are available in the U.S. Army War College Library collection or can be accessed on the Internet. The links to the web sites included in this bibliography were active as of May 2006. For your convenience, call numbers or Internet addresses were added at the end of each book or document entry. (Call numbers indicate the item's self location in our library.)

The historical poverty of Alabama's academic institutions required bold action if deficiencies in library resources were ever to be overcome. The Network of Alabama Academic Libraries has implemented a successful cooperative collection development program to strengthen resources available for graduate education and research. Recommendations resulting in the establishment of the Network are reviewed along with the conceptional decisions necessary for the implementation of the cooperative collection development program. Program funding, the formula for distribution of funds to disparate institutions, and corollary activities are discussed

Women have served in the world's armed forces in unofficial and official capacities for many generations. Some of the accomplishments of these service women and challenges they encounter today are highlighted in Women in the Military: A Selected Bibliography. Most of the books, documents, and periodical articles cited were published since 2000. The web sites included in the bibliography were checked during November-December 2004 to ensure the links were active as of that period. All items are available in the U.S. Army War College Library collection or can be accessed from the Internet. For your convenience call numbers were added at the end of each book or document entry to indicate the item's shelf location in our library.

Journalists working in newspapers frequently resort to retrospective reference to make news presentation more attractive and informative to the reader. Realizing the impact that the library can have on newspaper production, some newspaper managements maintain a library/inhouse information system for the provision of a comprehensive service to the editorial department. This study was undertaken with the objective of assessing the present state of newspaper libraries in Kerala with respect to their administrative set-up, organizational efficiency, library collection, technical processing, services, personnel and physical facilities. Libraries/information units attached to newspapers having a circulation of above 50 000 were chosen for study. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, examination of the relevant files and records, and by personal observation. The study revealed that the book collection of the newspaper libraries in the state of Kerala in South India is inadequate. Books are not procured regularly and even the reference books available are outdated, old editions. Newspaper managements do not seem to be enthusiastic about developing a library collection containing the latest edition of important reference books. The available materials are not properly classified and catalogued in most of the libraries and adequate measures are not taken for preservation of library materials. No comprehensive clippings indexing services are available in the majority of the libraries. Library personnel employed in the newspapers in Kerala are totally inadequate from the point of view of both quality and quantity. The problem of space is faced by almost all libraries and reading materials lie scattered in different places because of this shortage of space. Thus the picture presented by the libraries of the newspapers in Kerala is far from satisfactory.

Background Medical practice today requires evaluating large amounts of information which should be available at all times. This information is found most easily in a digital form. Some information has already been evaluated for validity (evidence based medicine sources) and some is in unevaluated form (paper and online journals). In order to improve access to digital information, the School of Clinical Medicine and Research at the University of the West Indies and Queen Elizabeth Hospital decided to enhance the library by offering online full text medical articles and evidence based medicine sources. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative value of online journal commercial products available for a small hospital and medical school library. Methods Three reference standards were chosen to represent the ideal list of core periodicals for a broad range of medical care: 2 Brandon/Hill selected lists of journals for the small medical library (BH and BH core) and the academic medical library core journal collection chosen for the Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library. Six commercially available collections were compared to the reference standards and to the current paper journal subscription list as regards to number of journals matched and cost per journal matched. Ease of use and presence of secondary sources were also considered. Results The cost per journal matched ranged from US $ 3194 to $ 81. Because of their low subscription prices, the Biomedical Reference Collection and Proquest products were the most cost beneficial. However, they provided low coverage of the ideal lists (12 – 17% and 21–32% respectively) and contained significant embargoes on current editions, were not user friendly and contained no secondary sources. The Ovid Brandon/Hill Plus Collection overcame these difficulties but had a much higher cost-benefit range while providing higher coverage of the ideal lists (14–47%). Conclusion After considering costs, benefits, ease of use, embargoes, presence of secondary sources (ACP Journal Club, DARE), the Ovid Brandon/Hill Plus Collection was the best choice for our hospital considering our budget. However, the option to individually select our own journal list from Ovid and pay per journal has a certain appeal as well.

Mentoring is a special theme at the U.S. Army War College. Compiled in support of this theme, the following bibliography reflects materials available in the Army War College Library collection.

The Department of National Security and Strategy (DNSS) at the U.S. Army War College is responsible for a major course entitled War, National Policy & Strategy. In its 1999 directive for this course, the Department lists seven Strategy Formulation Guidelines. They are National Values, National Interests, Strategic Appraisal, National Policy, National Strategy, Military Strategy, and Risk Assessment. These guidelines formed the parameters for the development of the following bibliography. With a few notable exceptions, the entries in this bibliography are dated 1995 to the present. They reflect Post Cold War thinking about strategy. Items included in the bibliography are available in the U.S. Army War College Library collection or through the Internet. For the books and documents which are available in our collection, we have added our call numbers at the end of each entry. Please keep in mind that call numbers may vary from library to library. URL addresses which appear in the bibliography were all verified for accuracy, but there is always the possibility that some of them may have changed since the verification took place. This bibliography is also available on the Internet through our Library's home page (http://carlisle-www.army.mil/library/).

The United States is a country built by immigrants, and its de velopment and history continue to be in fluenced by immigration. This topic is therefore usually covered in U.S. history courses. In geography, the themes of human movement requires the study of immigration. Textbooks, however, do not always provide enough information on the topic, creating a need for supple mentary materials. U.S. history and geography teachers can locate supple mentary resources on teaching about immigration by turning to the bibliographic database of the ERIC (Educational Re sources Information Center) system. The resources listed below are supplemen tary materials listed in ERIC's database. Materials noted in this column that are preceded by an ED number are known as ERIC documents and are an notated monthly in RIE (Resources in Education), available in many libraries throughout the country. Documents may be purchased from the EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Services), 3900 Wheeler Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304 6409, in either microfiche (MF) or paper copy (PC). Check, money order, Master Card and Visa are all accepted. EDRS also provides a toll free number (1-800 227-3742) for customer service and phone orders. Entries preceded by an EJ number are journal articles which are annotated monthly in CUE (Current Index to Jour nals in Education), available in many li braries. EJ articles are not available through EDRS; however, they may be located in the journal section of most libraries by using the bibliographic infor mation provided in each annotation. Additional resources on teaching about immigration, as well on as other social studies topics, can be found by searching the monthly RIE and CUE indexes, or by searching the ERIC data base on CD-ROM or online. These in dexes, CD-ROMs, and online search serv ices are available at libraries throughout the country. These libraries also may have complete microfiche collections of ERIC documents available for viewing.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), spon sored by the U.S. Department of Education, is the largest 'and oldest education information system in the world. The ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS) is one of sixteen subject-oriented clearinghouses that compose the ERIC system. The heart ofthe ERIC system, the ERIC database of education-related literature, contains over one million citations with abstracts to journal articles, teaching and curriculum guides, bibliographies, research reports, conference papers, and other materials, all pertaining to education. The citations with abstracts listed below, all drawn from the ERIC database, are for teaching materials and background infor mation on the homefront during World War II. The key to obtaining the full text of the materials cited below is the unique "ERIC number" assigned to each item in the ERIC database. Journal articles, denoted by "EJ" numbers (for example, EJ412432), can be obtained at most academic libraries, borrowed through interlibrary loan, or purchased from commercial article reprint services such as Ingenta and ISI. Research reports, conference papers, and other materials besides journal articles are denoted by "ED" numbers (for example, ED388583); paper or microfiche copies of most of these documents can be purchased from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), 7420 Fullerton Road, Suite 110, Springfield, VA 22153-2852, (800) 443-3742; ; ; or copied at an ERIC microfiche collection, available at many libraries. ERIC/ChESS welcomes requests for general information or sample database searches on topics within the social studies, social sciences, music education, and art education. Contact ERIC/ ChESS by telephone at (800) 266-3815 or (812) 855-3838, or by e-mail at .

Niupepa is a collection of forty-two newspaper titles published in New Zealand during the period 1842 to 1933, comprising a total of 21,000 pages in 1750 issues. These form a unique historical record of the language of the indigenous Maori people, the evolution of the written form of this language, and of events and developments during the formative colonial history of our country. Using the Greenstone software from the New Zealand Digital Library, this collection is being made publicly available with full-text search capability.

"Ethics: A Selected Bibliography," now in its third revised edition, was compiled to support the study of ethics, one of the "enduring themes" of the U.S. Army War College's curriculum. Like the earlier bibliographies, this list covers some of the fundamentals of moral philosophy as well as a broad range of contemporary ethical issues. In general, it contains books, documents, and videos published during the past 10 years, and periodical articles from the last 5 years. All the materials are readily available in the USAWC Library's collection.

References to papers dealing with M31 are listed here in order of the year of appearance. Brief annotations are given for most of them. The first part of this compilation is based in part on work done many years ago by students at the University of California, Berkeley, as a class project. Especially hard-working were Conrad Sturch, Ralph Robbins, K. S. Krishna Swamy, Carol Webb, and Ann Merchant (Boesgaard). Not all of the references could be checked directly in available library collections. Thus, especially for some of the older references, we had to rely on the data in the Astronomische Jahresbericht or other secondary sources.

A key project aimed towards the permanent archiving and wide availability of electronic material was launched earlier this year under the banner of ‘The European Library’ (TEL) project. A key collaboration between the national libraries of several European nations, the 30-month initial collaborative project aims to establish a cooperative framework between nations to ensure the permanent availability of electronically published material. Many science libraries currently source material that is not available locally from national collections such as the British Library or Deutsche Bibliothek, and TEL should provide for greater access to material. At present, the UK policy of ‘Legal Deposit’ of scientific journals with the British Library and five other UK copyright libraries within one month of publication only applies to printed material. A code of practice has been set up to try and continue this principle with electronic works. This initiative has yet to be incorporated into UK legislature. Problems faced by the permanent archiving of electronic publications include the boundaries of the work (in relation to links within individual works) as well as the issue of intellectual property and control over access. In this revolutionary age of electronic publishing, such measures are clearly of great importance to ensure the continuity of information resources for future generations. D.S.

Revised version of a paper presented at the 8th Seminar on Library Buildings organized by the IFLA Section on Library Buildings and Equipment at the College of Librarianship Wales, 10-14 August 1987. Librarians involved in the planning of new library buildings need to visit other buildings of the same type, sometimes in other countries. However, it is not always easy to decide which libraries to visit because of the lack of systematic published descriptions and, in many cases, of a central location where both documentation relating to library buildings is available. Reviews published sources of information and existing collections of documentation on new library buildings and analyses the defects of the existing documentation. Concludes that, while the documentation of projects world-wide is probably impossible, buildings of international significance should be identified and described. This might be done by the IFLA Section on Library Buildings and Equipment. In each country, information and documentation should be available in a standardized form at one or more documentation centres.

The National Museum of American History Branch Library, a part of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries system, acquires and maintains a dynamic collection in support of the research pursued in this museum. Subject concentration is in the history of science and technology and American history, with emphasis on material culture and on documenting and servicing the museum's collections. Special collections include trade literature and exposition materials. The library collection is developed and viewed as a national resource, with access available to all scholars in need of its materials.

For forty years a library service has been provided to degree external students in humanities subjects at the University of Queensland. A separate library collection with a dedicated staff continues to be maintained. This paper draws attention to the importance of adequate subject materials, a strong library collection and good bibliographies of available material. Acquisitions policy is stated and related to the achievement of adequate resources within constraints of budget, collection strength, lecturers' approach and subject material content, and cooperation is highlighted. Isolation of students from adequate alternative library collections is an influence on the library service from Thatcher, and use of other collections is considered in the context of efficiency and effectiveness.

Although a literature search yields much data on validity, reliability and construction of educational and psychological tests, little information on test collection management in libraries is available. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign initiated a survey of selected test collections in order to verify that their practices conformed with those of other institutions. An attempt was also made to rank collections and compare staff and budget allocations. The fact that two other institutions were found during the distribution and compilation of the survey to be engaged in a similar activity indicates that there is currently great interest in the management of test collections in libraries.

Published by the Science and Technology Division of the Library of Congress since 1972, the Tracer Bullet series is an underused reference source available in many library and government documents collections. The Tracer Bullets cover a wide variety of subjects in the natural and physical sciences and technology. Each one is devoted to a specific topic and is designed “to help a reader begin to locate published material on a subject about which he or she has only general knowledge.” Developed in the style of a library pathfinder, each explores the resources available, listing texts, handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, government documents, and journal articles. Addresses and telephone numbers of relevant organizations are also included as are appropriate Library of Congress subject headings to use in locating additional material.

Field Museum of Natural History and its Library were founded in 1894. In support of Museum research the Library specializes in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, botany, geology, palaeontology and zoology, all with a global scope. A rich serials collection and numerous special colelctions make the Library a distinctive resource in the natural sciences. The Library serves both the scientific community and the wider public as a non-circulating reference collection. Through Interlibrary Loan the Library's collections are also available to researchers at virtually all other libraries.

M USIC LIBRARIES in the United States in the last thirty years have in many cases made progress that enables them to compare favorably with older libraries abroad, especially in their organization, their physical facilities and equipment, and their collections of printed scores and the literature of music. However, in the field of primary source material, particularly autograph manuscripts, of European music, it has long been a common assumption that the American scholar would find our library shelves bare and would have to travel to the great libraries of Berlin, Paris, London, and other European cities to carry on his studies. No one will dispute the pre-eminence of these libraries, of course, in their manuscript collections, but quite aside from the possibility of their treasures being made available in facsimile in this country, it is becoming apparent that a very respectable number of European autograph scores do exist in the United States, in libraries and in private collections. A census of such material, now approaching completion, reveals many treasures of which most musicians may well be unaware. It will be the writer's purpose here to tell something of the background of the census, of some of his experiences in carrying it on, and to call attention to the extent of the manuscript collections in this country. In the spring of 1937 a small group of music librarians, eager to increase available source material in American libraries, outlined a project to obtain microfilm copies of musical rarities in European libraries for a central archive in this country. Approached for a grant to enable a librarian to visit central Europe and make preliminary contacts for such a project, the Oberlaender Trust, although approving the purpose, suggested a preliminary census of autograph manuscripts and facsimiles of European composers in American libraries and collections, and the writer was asked to make such a survey. Once begun, the census proved to be more complicated than expected, and, unfinished at the time of Pearl

Given the astonishing number of new book titles and new editions of older books published each year in the United States, one could assume that collection building (and maintenance) would be a virtual snap, made difficult only by the problem of what to finally choose for purchase from such an embarrassment of riches. According to Publishers Weekly in its “Statistical Report on Domestic Title Output” (October 1, 1982) a total of “at least 48,793 book titles were published in the U.S. in 1981”—41,434 brand‐new titles and 7,359 new editions, a staggering total on the face of it. (The words “at least” are used because many published books are not counted in the PW totals: government publications, many professional law book publications, subscription reference sets, book club editions, irregular serials and annuals, books sold only to schools, books of fewer than 49 pages, etc.) And if further proof is needed that an awful lot of books are available for librarians to purchase for library collections, Bowker's advertisement for the new edition of Books in Print notes that the 1982–83 edition has increased to six volumes, from two in the 1960s and four in the 1970s. The ad further states that the newest edition lists more than 600,000 titles in print and includes more than 80,000 new titles and editions than did last year's.

Combines the results of two questionnaire surveys of preservation policies, conducted by Loughborough University, Department of Information and Library Studies, to compare the ways in which librarians perceive and carry out preservation management and how their perceptions and activities compare with those of archivists, for whom preservation plays a more central role in their working practices. The first project was based on a questionnaire survey of 682 UK academic, national, public and special libraries. The second project was based on a questionnaire survey of 290 archives and record offices and interviews with 25 librarians, archivists and conservators. Discusses appropriate issues including: attitudes to preservation; selection for preservation; resources available; external funding; increasing use of library and archive collections; photocopying demand; past neglect; and digital technology. Concludes that, although librarians and archivists may have different attitudes to preservation, preservation managers face similar problems regardless of profession. Digitization can offer researchers distant access to surrogates of important materials via networked systems but stresses the need for a coherent and comprehensive UK national preservation strategy.

As archives and libraries digitize and make their collections available online, they are faced with the challenge of meeting growing patron expectations in the online environment while still adhering to copyright statutes. This article reports on a case study investigating the copyright status of materials from a recent effort to make the Thomas E. Watson Papers, a manuscript collection housed at the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, accessible online. The article also explores fair use as a possible approach for digital publication of archival collections containing materials protected by copyright.

The period between 1812 and the Civil War vas a time of tremendous change in the United States. Events like the War of 1812, the annexation of Texas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the continuing question of slavery were paramount dur ing this period of U.S. History. This ERIC column will highlight materials available from the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) sys tem. Documents may be purchased from ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), 3900 Wheeler Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304-5110, in either microfiche (MP) or paper copy (PC). Orders should be accompanied by a check or money order. EDRS now provides a toll-free number (1-800-227-3742) for customer service and phone orders. Entries followed by an EJ number are annotated monthly in CUE (Current Index to Journals in Edu cation^ which is available in libraries containing ERIC collections. EJ docu ments are not available through EDRS; however, they can be located in the journal section of most libraries using the bibliographic information provided in each annotation. Additional resources on Nationalism and the time period between 1812 and the Civil War can be found by searching the monthly ERIC index RESOURCES IN EDUCATION, located in many libraries throughout the country. These libraries also may have complete microfiche col lections of ERIC documents available for viewing. EJ 295 902. "Indiana and the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854," by William J. Medland and Morton M. Rosenberg in INDIANA SOCIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Winter 1983-84, volume 36, number 3, pp. 22-31. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which re pealed the ban against slavery in the North, served as a catalyst to activate numerous groups which were unhappy with the Indiana Democratic party. From this period emerged the new Republican party and also a revitalized Democratic party with new leadership.

The celebration of the bicentennial of the Constitution is a continuing process. Officially, it does not end until 1991 with the anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights, but the celebration should continue far beyond the official conclusion. This ERIC/ChESS column will highlight current resources available on the Con stitution. Documents in this column that contain an ED number are available from the Educational Resource Informa tion Center (ERIC) Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) facility located at 3900 Wheeler Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304-5110. 1-800-227-3742. Documents are available in either microfiche or paper copy. Additional resources can be found by searching the monthly ERIC index RESOURCES IN EDUCATION (RIE) located in many libraries throughout the country. Entries which contain an EJ number are annotated monthly in CURRENT INDEX TO JOURNALS IN EDUCATION (CUE) which is available in libraries containing ERIC collections. EJ documents are not available through EDRS; however, they can be located in the journal section of most libraries, using the bibliographic information provided in each annotation.

WHEN on Nov. 29, 1898, 154 charter members founded The Chemists' Club to bring together and to serve all members of the profession, the plan visioned a great chemical library. Today, that great collection of chemical literature is available to all chemists. Its existence and maintenance constitute an invaluable asset of the American chemical industry. As such, the library of The Chemists' Club is kept as a repository of the latest information on chemical and allied subjects for the use of all interested. This is now the largest chemical research library in the United States. It is a storehouse of valuable information of vast practical usefulness to the chemists of the country. The initial collection of the library was formed by gifts of members, notably Charles F. Chandler. This was supplemented in January 1899 by the library of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, which was "deposited" with the club upon conditions agreeable to both parties. Books, ...

W < THEN plans for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Goucher College were in progress, the library staff was faced with the problem of preparing a library exhibit in keeping with the theme of the celebration, the educational program of the college. It was necessary that the exhibit not only represent the educational program, but represent it in concrete terms which even the casual visitor could understand. Since the use of verbal symbols, particularly in the form of written and printed materials, is a most important factor in liberal-arts education, and since such materials are the stock in trade of any library, books and other printed materials were adopted as the symbols of the educational program. A display of books used by the students between i888 and I894, and those used by students today was decided on as representing not only the educational program of the college, but also the important part played in that program by the library. The librarian had already begun to collect textbooks used by members of the first classes, as a part of the record of college history. A systematic attempt to add to them was now made. A study of the description of courses in the college catalogues from I888 to I894 added a few more titles to the list, titles which were available either in the library's own collection or in other local libraries. These same descriptions of courses, together with information supplied by alumnae, gave a fair idea of the nature of the collateral reading done in that period. Modern materials for contrast were assembled from the syllabi used currently in courses in the college, and from suggestions made by members of the faculty in the departments concerned. Of course, not all departments could be represented in the exhibit. The fact that the collection of early textbooks was not complete, that not all the departments at present offering courses were represented in the curriculum before I894, and limitations of space, all played a part in the final selection. In the end, seven departments were included: psychology, philosophy, French, economics, physics, chemistry, and biology. It seemed best to limit the exhibit to elementary courses, because, in some cases, only an elementary course was offered in the early days, and because the use of advanced courses might place more emphasis on the advance of knowledge and less on the educational program. For each of these seven departments a textbook, studied in the early years, and other representative books, when others were