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Child Abuse Materials for Kids
Authors: Robinson Doris
Published: February 2008

Child abuse is no longer something we must talk about in cautious tones. The creation of the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse and the launching of a national awareness campaign in 1984 has resulted in a welcome but typical media blitz which has raised our consciousness but given little in the way of a solution. Parents are turning to the library for materials to help them introduce the hereto‐fore unspeakable of child abuse to their children.
Collaborative Collection Development: Progress, Problems, and Potential
Authors: Stam David H.
Published: February 2008

Library planning and collection building in the research libraries of the United States have long had to deal with two contradictory forces, autonomy and interdependence. The independence and autonomy of those libraries in providing for local self‐sufficiency in information needs have been tested by a gradual but growing realization that local self‐sufficiency is not possible for the programs of comprehensive university libraries or other large libraries. They continue to operate independently, making their own decisions for local needs, while routinely rejecting the “myth of the self‐sufficient library” and paying lip‐service to cooperation and resource sharing.
Watching Movies: A Guide to Video Review Sources
Authors: Julien Don , Owen Beverly
Published: February 2008

The widespread commercial videocassette market has opened to the world and to libraries a grab bag of viewing choices. Library response to the feast has varied throughout the country, resulting in different emphases from collection to collection. One is the educational or cultural collection, intended not for recreational viewing but for specific training or general self‐development. Another is the esoteric collection of tapes generally produced for mass‐market consumption but not readily available through commercial outlets. This type of collection emhasizes film classics, classic television series, and how‐to‐do‐its. A third is the entertainment collection, composed primarily of mass‐marketed features and shorts. Each approach has its special problems in following the videocassette industry and finding reviews.
Artificial Intelligence: A Review of Current Information Sources
Authors: Hilker Emerson
Published: February 2008

We have long been obsessed with the dream of creating intelligent machines. This vision can be traced back to Greek civilization, and the notion that mortals somehow can create machines that think has persisted throughout history. Until this decade these illusions have borne no substance. The birth of the computer in the 1940s did cause a resurgence of the cybernaut idea, but the computer's role was primarily one of number‐crunching and realists soon came to respect the enormous difficulties in crafting machines that could accomplish even the simplest of human tasks.
In Search of People's Culture
Authors: Crawford John F.
Published: February 2008

I am a specialist, I suppose, in People's Culture. It has taken me ten years to realize that is what I “do.” I publish books, and distribute other books, and study still more books, relating to the expressions of people considered “marginalized” in this society, though together they form the majority: working‐class people, farmers and some regional writers, minorities, women who deal with themes of oppression, and so on. The books express history, often a common one (on my desk is an autobiography by a Japanese‐American labor organizer in California who spent much of his life as an agricultural worker). The genres may vary: labor history, biography, autobiography, fiction, poetry, drama, occasionally a scholarly or critical study, but they share a radical content, related to their marginality.
Acquisitions Policy in a Developing Economy: A Case Study of Nigerian State (Public) Libraries
Authors: Nzotta Briggs C.
Published: February 2008

Most literature on acquisitions, as well as on other aspects of librarianship, tends to focus on the developed countries. Automation, the application of the latest technologies and skills to library service, and similar issues are exhaustively studied and discussed. Unfortunately, such subjects are hardly of immediate relevance to the countries of the Third World.
A Search for Entrepreneurism in the Library
Authors: Secor John R.
Published: February 2008

The focus of this article is on entrepreneurism. More specifically, it is on the search for entrepreneurism in the business of librarianship. When I first thought about this topic, I asked Gary Shirk, former Head of Acquisitions, University of Minnesota, and currently Vice President of Collection Management, Yankee Book Peddler, Inc., to give me his thoughts on the subject. Gary's comments were excellent:
Minnesota Reviews: What Have We Here?
Authors: Hart Joanne
Published: February 2008

As old familiar publishing houses transmogrify into the diversified corporate structure these days, trade books are being contrived in board rooms with markets in mind, with profits prefigured, and with primary attention to the work's suitability as a product. At the same time, in the last ten to fifteen years, the alternative, independent publishers, often so small as to be called “family operations,” have grown in number and are taking the risks big commerce, oddly enough, cannot afford. With the purchase of small press and alternative works in all media, libraries can acquire value beyond the actual materials costs: new ideas, information ignored by commercial interests, unpublicized exciting artists, works of regional interest, minority press, materials in daring or experimental forms. All of these are likely to be considered unprofitable by large publishers.
Legal Collections in Small‐and Medium‐Sized Public Libraries
Authors: Warner Marnie , Flynn Kathleen
Published: February 2008

Public access to legal materials is extremely important because of the number of laws, regulations, and court cases governing our society. In order to function effectively on a day‐to‐day basis and carry out his or her responsibilities toward the legal system, an individual needs an understanding of the law and the legal process. In this article we explore the steps that public librarians must take to establish and utilize a basic legal collection for their communities and offer some insight into the suggested approaches for dealing with legal reference inquiries.
The Role of Librarians in Implementing an Automated Information System
Authors: Wikholm Nancy E.
Published: February 2008

Implementing the United Technologies Online Catalog (UTOC) was greatly facilitated by the ability of each librarian involved in the process to develop a variety of skills, including behavioral, information, managerial, technical, or some combination of these. To understand how these roles evolved, creating a new and greater set of responsibilities for the company's librarians, one must first understand its library system and UTOC itself; this project may provide clues to how other large‐scale automated information projects will affect librarian responsibilities.
Classical Music on CD's: Creating and Controlling the Collection
Authors: Curtis Robert
Published: February 2008

Developing a collection of compact disc sound recordings is beginning to emerge as a goal for many libraries, yet the commitment of resources and energy involved in this effort is not to be taken lightly. In addition to the inevitable practical problems to be solved, there is the rare responsibility of constructing a collection from the ground up, an enterprise particularly challenging with a new medium. Satisfying both patron needs and staff requirements is seldom easy; the task of choosing CD's therefore requires careful thought, planning, and monitoring.
An Inventory for the '80s
Authors: Spicer Claudia A.
Published: February 2008

In the autumn of 1984, Tutt Library at Colorado College decided to buck the trend among libraries and began an inventory of its main Dewey Decimal collection. Excluded from the inventory were government publications, special collections, theses, current best sellers, paperbacks, and videotapes. Tutt's last inventory was taken in 1958, and its remnants had never been cleared from the shelflist. The library, which houses approximately 210,343 titles in 319,198 volumes (including special collections), wanted more precise information to assist it in making decisions on choosing a security system and online catalog and circulation systems; it also looked forward to other benefits, such as:
Costing Library Operations—A Bibliography
Authors: Aren Lisa J. , Webreck Susan J. , Patrick Mark
Published: February 2008

Although library costs continue to rise in respect to staff, materials, and general operating expenses, the budgets needed to maintain the expected level of services are not keeping pace. And, in spite of a surge in interest in computing unit costs for budget justification, resource distribution, cost comparison, and forecasting, relatively few organizations have implemented full‐scale cost analyses.
Archives and Manuscripts: Historical Antecedents to Contemporary Chicano Collections
Authors: G¨ereña Salvador
Published: February 2008

Possibly one of the greatest misconceptions about Chicano historiography is the view that published intellectual writings by Chicanos are of recent vintage, traceable only over several decades. This assumption is in part supported by the large and growing body of contemporary published materials by and about Chicanos, especially within the past 15 years.
Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Collection Assessment
Authors: Sandler Mark
Published: February 2008

In recent years there has been increased recognition of the need for both descriptive and analytical data about library collections. Coordinated efforts like the RLG Conspectus and ARL's National Collection Inventory Project are attempts to identify collecting strengths among the nation's research libraries. In many cases, however, participation in these programs has raised the consciousness of collection officers to the realization that they know less than they would care to admit about the holdings of their own libraries. What institutions report are often little more than a series of educated guesses which has led to the need for verification studies as a check on the validity of the data being gathered. In other areas, too, the need for more and better data has become apparent as managers within and outside the library are less willing to accept intuitive and impressionistic responses to their questions about acquisition budgets and priorities for preservation, storage, or retrospective conversion. Thus, there is increasing discussion in the literature of the need for, and approaches to, collection assessment and analysis.
British Approval Plan Books: American or British Vendor?
Authors: Ferguson Anthony W.
Published: February 2008

A number of factors contribute to the need for collection developers to reexamine the use of British dealers for British books: fluctuations in the value of the American dollar, the absence of discounts from British dealers, the highly competitive nature of discounting among American dealers, the increased availability of British titles distributed or simultaneously published on this side of the Atlantic, timeliness of materials, and the differences in technical processing introduced by both avenues of acquisition. This case study describes actions taken over a two‐year period (mid 1983 to November 1985) at a medium‐sized research library to reexamine these issues.
Gypsies in Our Libraries
Authors: Hancock Ian
Published: February 2008

When the Library of Congress (LC) Subject Cataloging Division defended its decision last year to continue using “Gypsy” as its principal heading on the grounds that it was better known than the more correct “Rom,” it unwittingly demonstrated its own prejudices against my people.
Mathematics Periodicals in Selected Liberal Arts Colleges
Authors: Hardesty Larry , Hastreiter Jamie
Published: February 2008

More than any other area of academic library collection, periodicals demonstrate the immense gap between the infinite nature of human inquiry and the finite quality of the resources available for the acquisition, organization, and maintenance of this inquiry. The number of periodicals currently available is far beyond the capabilities of most academic libraries to acquire and maintain. For example, Katz and Katz wrote in their introduction to the most recent edition of Magazines for Libraries that they included some 6,500 periodicals from over 65,000 possibilities. Fewer than a half a dozen major research libraries subscribe to 65,000 or more periodicals, and only a similar number of liberal arts college libraries subscribe to even 3,000 titles.
The Classics Will Circulate—On Videocassette
Authors: Palmer Joseph W.
Published: February 2008

The classics will circulate wrote a public librarian several years ago. She found that new, attractive, prominently displayed editions of literary classics would indeed find a substantial audience among public library patrons.
South Asian Collections: Using Research Resources for a More General Public
Authors: Burlingham Merry
Published: February 2008

South Asia is a complex and fascinating region. Comprised of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, the subcontinent is home to all the world's great religions, to numerous languages and dialects, to ethnic diversity, and to a well‐developed publishing industry. Where formerly South Asia was in the news for gurus, Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Teresa, today it is before the public in terms of nuclear proliferation in Pakistan and India, ethnic/religious strife in Sri Lanka and India, and the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. Through the Library of Congress' five South Asian programs, a number of academic libraries in the United States have developed superb collections, which include contemporary and historical topics, to support teaching and research on South Asia. It is the thesis of this article that these specialized resources should be more widely known and used by our colleagues and the general public.
Cooperative Collection Development: The Northern California Experience
Authors: Pettos William
Published: February 2008

As books and serials proliferate and their prices climb, acquisitions budgets remain static or decrease. One way to resolve the dilemma is a cooperative acquisitions program. The North Bay Cooperative Library System (NBCLS), a consortium of libraries in northern California, recently completed a two‐year project to jointly develop member libraries' book and serials collections. The goals were to stretch none‐too‐abundant funds by eliminating overlap in acquisitions and to increase the collections' bibliographic depth.
Determining Budgets for School Library Media Centers
Authors: Blake Virgil L.P. , Tjoumas Renée
Published: February 2008

There are two factors essential to collection development and management in any library or information center. The first is an explicit statement of the organization's goals. The second is the size of the materials budget—the financial resources provided to achieve the goals. Professional literature includes a profusion of information dealing with the selection process for school library media centers, but very little is available about materials budgets. A clear, practical and rational procedure needs to be developed to help school librarians determine how much funding is necessary to fulfill the school library media center's goals.
Computer Applications in the Humanities: A Bibliography of American Fiction 1901–1925
Authors: Smith Geoffrey D.
Published: February 2008

For a library planning to add to a collection and develop a bibliography in a given area, the computer database can be a key factor in terms of efficiency of the process and the comprehensiveness of the end result. The Ohio State University Libraries (OSUL) in Columbus, Ohio house the outstanding William Charvat Collection of American Fiction, named in honor of a distinguished professor of American authorship at Ohio State University. For works published in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Charvat Collection compares favorably with collections at Yale University, the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the American Antiquarian Society. The Charvat collection is particularly strong for the period 1876–1900. Among 20th‐century titles, its holdings for the period 1901–1925 are rivalled only by the Library of Congress. Efforts have begun to develop holdings in American fiction from 1926 through the present.
Managing Collections in an Automated Network Environment
Authors: Allison Anne Marie
Published: February 2008

The goals of cooperation and collection management in academic libraries may sometimes seem mutually exclusive. Individual institutional objectives may compete and conflict with the objectives of networking partners. The political and financial forces driving a college affect its librarians' commitments to cooperative resource sharing. Today's librarians face problems analagous to those of counselors in social service organizations. A mental health agency's counselors have obligations to society, to their profession, to clients, and to the specific agency unit where they practice (comparable in a university setting to the library). Further, they have ethical ties to a larger parent organization (which would be comparable in the academic library model to the university or college itself).
Compare and Contrast, Or, The Unexamined Cataloging Record Isn't Worth Inputting
Authors: Berman Sanford
Published: February 2008

More subject tracings. More notes. More added entries for persons, groups, and titles. More up‐to‐date terminology. More specific topical headings. More analytics. More subject access to single literary works. That's what will make online (and most other) catalogs work better. But is our primary cataloging source doing it? Judge for yourself by comparing these Library of Congress and Hennepin County Library records for small and alternative press titles:
Information Policies for Collection Development Librarians
Authors: Branin Joseph J.
Published: February 2008

Beware of “Info‐Smoke” warns Art Plotnick in a recent American Libraries editorial. It clouds the meaning and purpose of libraries by embroiling them in the “world's hottest commodity”—information. “The information age” or “the information society” are clichés used with abandon by many librarians. “Information” is the buzzword for grant applications, articles, and new names for libraries and library schools. As Plotnick rhetorically asks, “Who isn't in the information business?”
Budgeting for Collection Development: A Suggestion
Authors: Ring Richard
Published: February 2008

Towards the middle of The Name of the Rose Adso of Melk realizes that “not infrequently books speak of books.… In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries‐old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.” With these thoughts in mind Adso asks his mentor William of Baskerville “what is the use of hiding books, if from the books not hidden you can arrive at the concealed ones?” William replies that “over the centuries it is no use at all. In a space of years or days it has some use.…” To which Adso, dumbfounded, asks “and is a library, then, an instrument not for distributing truth but for delaying its appearance?”
Cooperative Collection Development Equals Collaborative Interdependence
Authors: Mosher Paul H.
Published: February 2008

Resource sharing or cooperative collection development among American libraries is not new; history reveals waves of cooperative spirit over many decades. Librarians in the United States—at least since librarianship became a serious professional enterprise around the turn of the century—have exhibited a democratic altruism about information and its distribution that has resulted in the world's richest and most extensive library collections and a tradition of library service unmatched anywhere else on the globe. Cooperative collection development in one guise or another has long been a part of both that spirit and that enterprise.
Collection Evaluation in the Research Library
Authors: Hyman Ferne B.
Published: February 2008

Among many unflattering characterizations of librarians is the one that accuses us of wishing to keep our collections neat, clean and in proper order on the shelves. That is, not being used. This is a half‐true, if exaggerated, statement. As rational professionals, librarians realize that if a collection is well used it is not always in order and available, or else the collection is not as good as it should be. Control—knowing where an item is, who has it—is the goal librarians strive to achieve, rather than maintaining every item in its place.
Preservation and Collection Management: Some Common Concerns
Authors: Byrnes Margaret M.
Published: February 2008

Awareness of the integral and necessary relationship between collection management and development and preservation programs has been increasing in recent years. At long last, collection managers and preservation specialists have begun to work together more closely and to identify areas of common concern.
A Museum of the Book
Authors: Super R.H.
Published: February 2008

The Modern Language Association of America recently sent a circular to all its members, beginning, “Where would you look if you wanted to find articles, written in Spanish, documenting speech pathology in six‐year‐old children?” For myself, I would have to answer “I don't know,” and in the back of my mind lurk Rhett Butler's famous parting words to Scarlett O'Hara. No doubt any scrap of knowledge is preferable to complete ignorance, but creative research requires that the same mind frame the questions, recognize the answers, and perceive their relevance.
Building Resources
Authors: Curley Arthur
Published: February 2008

The common practice of celebrating the end of one decade and the beginning of another at the outset of the decennial year, while a triumph of impatience over calendric accuracy, represents an eager need to invest the otherwise random events of life with structure and meaning. Collection Building shares with the Gregorian calendar the lack of a year zero; still, the passage of the odometer from nine to ten inspires a pause for that simultaneous look backward and forward.
Materials of History: Saving and Discarding
Authors: Broadus Robert N.
Published: February 2008

Is this a fair description of conditions in typical large American libraries? Buildings that once seemed so spacious gradually (rapidly?) fill with books, journals, and other kinds of stuff. We squeeze in more ranges, making aisles too narrow for comfort or efficiency; then add little sections of disjunctive, unmatching shelves in whatever nooks happen to be left. We put big, old, ugly encyclopedic sets on the crowns of shelving units—all right, maybe, for basketball players. Fading papers hang shaggily into space intended for people.
Beyond Print: Object Collections in Academic Libraries
Authors: Bierbaum Esther G.
Published: February 2008

The academic library clings to its etymological roots; even a term such as “alternative materials” connotes print. Still, because of the recognition of recreational or instructional values, some audiovisual (AV) formats—traditionally, the sight‐sound media of film, recordings, and graphics— have become accepted (if not wholly embraced) in academic collections. Whether these nonprint materials are bibliographically and physically accessible is problematical: AV is often purchased from different budgets, housed separately, and indexed by a system different from that for the print collection. Nonprint also includes three‐dimensional objects (3D), materials equally useful as supplements to the printed page: a model, a simulation, the “real thing” itself. The literature indicates these materials are increasingly important in school and public library collections. We ask then, should objects be part of academic library collections, and what is the present status of these materials in academic libraries?
Selecting Science Books for General Readers
Authors: Clewis Beth
Published: February 2008

Current library literature offers little advice for the selection of science books for the general public. Most articles and books concern the primary scientific literature, produced by scientists for their peers, information most useful to managers of sci‐tech libraries. The popular or general‐interest science book has apparently been overlooked by both science and general librarians. Yet this category of books is interesting and important in its own right,andopportunitiesabound for investigation into their selection and use.
Building a Research Collection in Physics: Current Trends and Issues
Authors: Lucas Thomas A.
Published: February 2008

The physics librarian today faces a complex and fast‐moving discipline and an almost overwhelming array of resources. Beginning selectors in physics are often perplexed. How does research in physics proceed? What kinds of information do physicists seek? Where can this information be found and what is the most effective way of providing it? How are increases in costs and volume of publication affecting collecting in physics? What do new technologies and cooperative arrangements have to offer the physics librarian? This essay, directed especially to the novice selector, seeks first to define physics research and the information needs of physics researchers. It then surveys the trends in technology and in the market‐place that are profoundly altering the way we build research collections in physics.
Technical Report Collections on Campus: Development and Use
Authors: Conkling Thomas W. , Musser Linda R.
Published: February 2008

Scientific findings have been announced in technical reports since the early 1900s and, over the years, these reports have become important information resources in many areas of engineering and science. Issued in modest numbers until the 1940s, increased government spending on military and scientific research caused a boom in the production of technical reports. This situation has continued to the present, with approximately 100,000 reports being published annually, representing research activity in the tens of billions of dollars.
Collection Development of Western Language Materials: Taiwan's National Central Library
Authors: Yu Priscilla C.
Published: February 2008

This study examines the collection building of Western language materials in a Third World national library. Given the multitude of demands and needs of a developing country, national libraries are confronted with basic problems, including convincing the government that the library is an important national institution, contributing to the nation's development and worthy of financial support. In addition to resource constraints, there is also the question of spending wisely for one's domestic collection as well as foreign publications, the latter being crucial if the Third World country is embarked upon a determined program of modernization. With limited resources on the one hand and the need to procure information from the developed world on the other, libraries in Third World countries could best meet their goals through careful planning. When collecting Western language materials, constructive planning could be achieved through a collection development policy in which Western collections are systematically and rationally built to assure collection growth and maximum utility.
Youth Services Collection Development Issues
Authors: Feehan Pat
Published: February 2008

Harriet G. Long in 1953 wrote about public library service to children in her book Rich The Treasure.
Selected List of Environmental Science Journals for a Science Collection: An Annotated Bibliography
Authors: Davis Estelle
Published: February 2008

With the proliferation of environmental science literature during the past two decades, librarians find it increasingly difficult to determine which sources of information are relevant to their clientele. This difficulty is compounded for the non‐science librarian by a lack of familiarity with journals currently available and the decidedly technical language of most environmental science publications. There are, however, a wide range of periodicals which are appropriate for informed readers at academic university libraries and public libraries that offer a wealth of information on the environmental sciences. It is this type of publication that will be identified in this annotated bibliography. As with all selected bibliographies, it does not attempt to identify all environmental science journal titles that may be used in an academic university library or public library. Titles selected will be those thought to be appropriate for the informed reader.
Images with Which to Think
Authors: Maggio Rosalie
Published: February 2008

Oppressed peoples have always told stories in which they shared images of themselves as powerful and free. Visions and prophecies and stories have shown people what is possible, what is yet to come, what our deepest selves are capable of.
Serials Review in the Humanities: A Three‐Year Project
Authors: Olsrud Lois , Moore Anne
Published: February 2008

Many libraries have been affected by the proliferation and price inflation of serial publications in recent years. Academic libraries have been especially hard‐hit since they are trying to cope with increasing subscription prices while facing budget reductions or very small increases. Although requesting additional funds and freezing new subscriptions help as short‐term measures, some libraries have undertaken serials evaluation and cancellation programs as a more permanent solution. Our university library conducted a comprehensive serials review, which is described here. This article explains the justification for the review and describes the methodology used and the problems encountered in canceling serials subscriptions.
Problem Librarians Make Problems for Humanists
Authors: Wesley Miller J.
Published: February 2008

Problem librarianship in weeding book collections has reached epidemic proportions with serious short‐ and long‐range ramifications for everyone, especially for scholars in the humanities. Although a number of books and articles in recent years have set forth eminently sensible rationales for such weeding, deselection, or deaccessioning (as it is variously called), in actual practice pragmatism shaped by funding exigencies and a new business mentality among librarians generally pro‐duces disturbing results. The business viewpoint has brought fundamental shifts in how things are done, and as Larry N. Osborne suggests in “Hassling Memorials” (Library Journal 662, March 15, 1978), many librarians feel that “strategically the best thing they can do is load the board with young management types.” Such trustees, most of whom slid through school without Latin and maybe without French, and without much history, art, music, or literature either, are doubtless akin to many of the young librarians themselves, if you view the MLS as a weak academic credential. For managers, performance is the bottom line, and it is reflected in numbers—numbers of book circulated, numbers of books requested that are available in a given library, numbers of users of one collection of books within a library vis‐a‐vis other collections, even the cost of keeping a book in the library for a year figured by dividing the library budget by the number of volumes on the shelves. Not many people want to know that it costs $2.47 to keep Athenaeus on the shelves if nobody is reading Athenaeus. Such managers may value an attractive dust jacket over what is inside the book, preferring a small, easy‐to‐carry corrupt text over a ponderous definitive edition.
Survival Weeding
Authors: Carey Cathy
Published: February 2008

Most small to medium‐sized public libraries are not depositories, research facilities, or storage places, but rather somewhere between these and a bookstore operation. To best serve patrons' needs it is important to have current, attractive, well‐displayed books. Trying to save everything just in case someone, sometime, might want a low‐use item is frustrating to both staff and clientele. Buildings can only hold a certain amount, so as long as there are new acquisitions, some of the older material has to go. Jam‐packed shelves are not pleasant to browse through and make a page's job more difficult.
Southern Belles and Hussies in Modern Drama: Enhancing Women's Collections
Authors: Baker Vaughan B.
Published: February 2008

Imagine a southern belle—sweet, submis‐sive, and charming with her flattering ways and soft drawl. Now conjure up a hussy— lewd, loud, brassy, or perhaps just self‐centered and strongly self‐assertive, forcing her will on everyone around her. The ease with which the pictures leap to mind attests to the vitality of the stereotypes, for stereotypes they are, powerful ones in the American mythology. Although they are clearly unrealistic conceptions of real‐life modern women, they have had and still exercise a potent influence on the literature of the south. Moreover, as the works of many modern southern playwrights show, popular adherence to such myths of femininity—and their inevitable corollaries for masculinity as well—resulted in a miserable human bondage for both women and men.
Aging Womanhood
Authors: Wheeler Helen R.
Published: February 2008

When I was young, new students addressed me as “Miss Wheeler”; when I became middle‐aged, “Mrs. Wheeler,” while all around me they called men of all ages “Dr.” and “Professor.” When I was middle‐aged, I involved myself in a civil rights action; the administrator in charge of my department was referred to as “that nice young man,” and I sometimes as “the old bat” — there was a year's difference in our ages. By way of introduction to the topic of aging and females, here are four concepts to consider:
Coming Out: The Information Needs of Lesbians
Authors: Creelman Janet A.E. , Harris Roma M.
Published: February 2008

According to Sasha Alyson, collections development librarians have a responsibility to provide books that address the needs of the estimated 10 percent of the population who are homosexual. Several authors have discussed the important role that libraries can play in the lives of gays and lesbians (see for example, Alyson, 1984; Ashby, 1987; Parkinson, 1987; and Monroe, 1989). Because they afford a degree of privacy to users, libraries that house good collections are a desirable place for gays and lesbians to sift through their positive and negative images and, in so doing, find solace and hope.
Networking and Cooperative Collection Management— The Illinois Experience
Authors: Weech Terry L.
Published: February 2008

Efforts to initiate cooperative collection management have evolved from two distinct networking contexts in Illinois. The earliest was the Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET), a statewide network that has grown into a multitype resource‐sharing network of libraries of all kinds and sizes. The second network context was the Library Computer System (LCS), which is based at the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign but includes the holdings of some 30 public and private academic libraries in Illinois. LCS was selected by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) as the unified database on which to build its program for cooperative collection management in Illinois academic libraries.
The Central American Resource Center
Authors: Keesey Pam
Published: February 2008

With the success of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979 and the ensuing Reagan Doctrine of the 1980's, Central America has become an area of much debate in the United States. Despite its renewed visibility in the media, a comprehensive understanding of the region and of the serious issues faced by its people is still lacking. The need for timely and accurate information on Central America is made clear by such indicators as:
U.S. Government Documents, Legislative Branch, on AIDS, 1986–1989
Authors: Burgh Scott G.
Published: February 2008

In Collection Building, Vol. 8, No. 4, a bibliography of U.S. government publications on AIDS from 1981 to September 1986 appeared. This annotated bibliography updates that work, covering legislative materials from 1986 to 1989. Documents that have information prior to 1986 are included when they were not published until 1986, such as a congressional hearings from 1985. This bibliography is thorough and comprehensive in its coverage of legislative materials, with an exception of two items from the Congressional Research Service. Contractor documents from the Office of Technology Assessment are included when found, but there is no systematic method to identify such sources.
HOMELESSNESS: Interdisciplinary Collection Development Challenge
Authors: Kuehn Jennifer J.
Published: February 2008

Every few years a “new” social issue comes to the forefront of attention in American society, and homelessness is the most recently profiled issue. Because homeless people are encountered on a daily basis and the topic is frequently publicized in all news media, public awareness is heightened. One result is that library patron requests increase and this may indicate the need to supplement library holdings, collect relevant research, and make various viewpoints available to a wide‐based constituency.
The Relationship between Literature Scatter and Journal Accessibility in an Academic Special Library
Authors: Lancaster F.W. , Gondek Valerie , McCowan Sherry , Reese herl
Published: February 2008

Among several “laws” that have been discussed in the literature of bibliometrics, the one best known is that commonly referred to as Bradford's Law of Scatteing. A substantial body of literature exists on how the law is best represented mathematically but, for our present purposes, it is enough to consider the phenomenon at a broader conceptual level. The law, as first described by Bradford, refers to the scatter of journal articles over journal titles. If a comprehensive search is performed over a particular time period and all, or virtually all, journal articles on the search topic are discovered, it is possible to rank the journal titles by number of articles on the topic they contribute. At the top of the list might appear a single title that contributed, say, 145 articles. At the bottom of the list might appear many journals that have only contributed a single article each to the subject. The ranked list can be divided into a number of “zones” (Bradford used three zones but four or more might be used) such that each zone contains approximately the same number of journal articles. This being so, the number of journals in each zone increases at an approximately geometric rate. This is illustrated by a simple example:
The European Community: Sources of Information for 1992
Authors: Ganly John
Published: February 2008

Beginning an article with a chronology stresses the importance of the past to the topic at hand. In the case of the information resources of the European Community, it is intended to dispel the idea that the information impact of 1992 will be made in 1992.
Visibility through Book Publishing: The Story of Clothespin Fever Press
Authors: Wrenn Jenny , Weathers Carolyn
Published: February 2008

A book on motorcycle repair that's easy to read and follow and includes a special photo section of the Dykes on Bikes at a San Francisco Gay Pride. An anthology of prose and poetry by lesbian writers that takes on life's many facets and ranges from the issue‐oriented to the nonpolitical. A rip‐roaring collection of short stories set in Texas, whose collection of characters includes lesbians, gay men, and heterosexuals. The memoirs of an adult child of an alcoholic as memorable for its original artwork as for its hard‐hitting narrative. The memoir of a preacher's daughter coming of age in 1940s and 1950s Texas, by a lesbian author noted for taking the specific and making it universal. A book of poems that poignantly expresses the grief felt when a spouse dies, but in this case the grief is magnified because the deceased's family will not acknowledge that their daughter was a lesbian, and they reject the surviving poet‐lover and her sorrow. An honest and compassionate account of a lesbian writer's struggle to balance her manic‐depression with her creativity. A directory of small publishers who, as women, have started presses which are often too small or too unusual to be listed in other directories.
U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, EXECUTIV BRANCH, ON AIDS, 1986–1989
Authors: Burgh Scott G.
Published: February 2008

In prior articles in both volume 8 (number 4) and volume 10 (numbers 3/4) of Collection Building, bibliographies of U.S. government publications on AIDS were covered. The first bibliography covered both executive branch and legislative branch materials from 1981 to September 1986. The second bibliography covered only legis‐lative materials from 1986 to 1989. This article complements the second bibliography in its coverage of executive branch materials from 1986 to 1989 and also updates the first work. While 1986 to 1989 is the framework, some items inadvertently omitted from the earlier work are included here.
Case Studies in Collection Development: Setting An Agenda for Future Research
Authors: Gonzalez‐Kirby Diana
Published: February 2008

Open‐ended interviews with bibliographers and the Assistant Director of Collection Development at the University of Miami (Florida) Richter Library reveal personal attributes and philosophies that may affect collection development decision making. These attributes may include one or more of the following: 1) subject expertise gained through a master's degree or prior work experience; 2) a strong commitment to serving the teaching and research needs of the faculty; 3) active participation in professional associations in the field for which the librarian selects materials; 4) frequent contact with the faculty and departmental book selectors; and 5) participation in research in the specialty area, e.g., publication of articles in scholarly journals or presentation of papers at meetings. This study suggests the need for more empirical data based on a large, representative sample.
The Vertical File Index. A Role To Play, A Contribution To Make
Authors: Dahl Katherine
Published: February 2008

While books and periodicals dominate the collections of most libraries, they do have a poor second cousin. Pamphlets and vertical file material have worth and value to a library (no matter what that library's size, function, or type); but this value may not always be recognized. A primary source of information on many pamphlets and vertical file‐like material is the Vertical File Index (hereafter sometimes referred to as the VFI or the index), a selection and collection‐building tool in existence for over fifty years. While the index does include references to items like Baby Shower Fun, Turn to Sandwiches, and Versatile Vinegar, it is not replete with such items.
Research Journal Usage by the Forestry Faculty at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Authors: Haas Stephanie C. , Lee Kate
Published: February 2008

The mission of the Department of Forestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville “is to provide high quality programs that develop and disseminate knowledge, and result in better understanding and management of forests and related natural resources.” There are close to 40 researchers in the department, including affiliate and adjunct faculty. The current research and instructional programs of the Department reflect the tremendous technological and socio‐economic changes that impact all areas of agriculture/forestry and natural resource management. Major research interests of the faculty include: using genetic engineering to improve stress hardiness and disease resistance; developing a more comprehensive understanding of all the physiological aspects of the resource including effects of disease and human impact such as acid deposition, biometric analysis, general biology and ecology of forest resources with particular emphasis on southern pines; studying the economic and policy factors affecting the forest industry, and exploring the use of mathematical modelling techniques.
Library and Information Science: Journals and Newsletters in Spanish
Authors: Freidband Susan , Cruz Gigi
Published: February 2008

This bibliography of journals and newsletters published in Spanish in the field of library and information science is designed to present the most complete bibliographic information possible. It includes not only currently available publications, but also those that have ceased publication. In addition, the general characteristics of these publications will be described.
Let Your Online Databank Save You Time and Money
Authors: Cox Clever Elaine , Dillard David P.
Published: February 2008

That there has been an unprecedented growth in accumulated knowledge, and a corresponding growth in the size of library collections has been recognized as a truism in library literature for at least the past 20 years. Today we continue to see the emergence of new fields and subfields, with each contributing to the exponential growth of the amount of material published. Librarians find their time sliced thinner and thinner as more and more demands are placed upon them due to growing job responsibilities as well as the need to keep current both in their subject specialities and with the technical developments in librarianship. Newer interdisciplinary fields create an even greater problem because of the broader range of expertise required by the various disciplines that comprise these fields.
American Modern Dance: Primary Sources in Book Form at the University of Michigan Music Library
Authors: Palazzola Benedette
Published: February 2008

Conventional wisdom holds that the art of dance is strictly and in all its aspects a phenomenon of the moment, something adequately captured by pictorial means only, and not by the written word. Reading and writing are thought to have little or nothing to do with the ephemeral magic of the art of dance. This attitude has its roots in a time before film and video technologies made more possible the vivid preservation of choreography; it also has its roots in a time before the importance of preserving our unique modern dance heritage became fully evident.
The Enemy is Us
Authors: Barnett LeRoy
Published: February 2008

On February 21st of this year the Detroit Free Press carried an article about an act that “appalled” some people in southeastern Michigan. The story claimed that citizens and politicians were “ready to throw the book at Macomb County library officials for pitching 20,000 volumes” from their collections in Mount Clemens. As a result of this action, some public officials suggested that “the county cut in half the library's $500,000 for new books.”
Columbus Quincentennial: Is There Anything to Celebrate?
Authors: Dodge Chris
Published: February 2008

Members attending a mass meeting at the American Library Associations's 1990 annual conference passed a resolution calling for libraries to “provide Columbus Quincentennial programs and materials which examine the event from an authentic Native American perspective, dealing directly with topics like cultural imperialism, colonialism, and the Native American holocaust.” But have libraries done anything since then to provide alternatives to the likes of Samuel Eliot Morison's purple prose? What attempts have been made to confront the omissions, half‐truths and myths about Columbus?
Conclusion: U.S. Government Documents, Executive Branch, on AIDS, 1986–1989
Authors: Burgh Scott G.
Published: February 2008

Following is the conclusion of the third AIDS bibliography, the first part of which was published in Collection Building volume 11 (number 1).