Collection Building: Volume 8 Issue 2
Table of contents
Down Under and Outback: Children's Books From and About Australia
Frances A. MillerIn September 1985, eight sets of children's books from Australia began an odyssey that will take them into all fifty states and Canada by the end of 1988. The books— and the…
Partitioned Bradford Ranking and the Serials Problem in Academic Research Libraries
Robert SiversDuring the last ten years, the number of research‐level serials has grown rapidly, and serials costs have increased at an even faster rate. These events, coupled with other…
Online Collection Evaluation, Course by Course
Michael R. GabrielIn view of the fact that evaluating library collections is so valuable in learning to what degree they lend support to all phases of curricula, it is surprising that so little…
Legal Collections in Small‐and Medium‐Sized Public Libraries
Marnie Warner, Kathleen FlynnPublic 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…
Reading, Interlibrary Loan, and OCLC: A Letter to Bill Katz
Robert S. BravardLast week while looking for something else I found myself reading through my file of your letters. No matter what the letter started out being about, it eventually turned into a…
Words at Work: Chronicling the Democratic Economy Beyond Both Socialism and Capitalism
Len KrimermanWhen it comes to social issues, Americans seem enamored of either‐or dichotomies: Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, right vs. left. In economic life, this…
From Evolution to Revolution in Paperback Publishing—Part One
Writing just a few years ago in The New York Times Book Review (January 10, 1982), Edwin McDowell, publishing correspondent of the Times, discussed what he termed “The Paperback…
Social Security Administration Publications
The Social Security Administration publishes a series of pamphlets and leaflets designed to distribute information about Social Security programs and policies. In general these…