Collection Building: Volume 17 Issue 2

Faculty use of an academic library reference collection

Michael J. Aked, John C. Phillips, Karen Reiman‐Sendi, Kevin Risner, Kathleen J. Voigt, Judy Wiesler

The Reference Use Study Group of the University of Toledo’s William S. Carlson Library utilized a questionnaire to determine how faculty used the reference collection, as well as…

Web tools for collection managers

Shelley Arlen, Ann Lindell, Razia Nanji, Colleen Seale

Collection management grows more complicated each day. The steady growth of publications, publishers and formats coupled with a corresponding decline in budgets requires that…

Reviewing American history: coverage and timeliness in American Historical Review, CHOICE, and Journal of American History

Paula Wheeler Carlo, Douglas Duchin, Allen Natowitz

This study examines reviewing tendencies in CHOICE, Journal of American History, and American Historical Review in the early 1990s in order to compare their strengths and…

Scholarly religious sites on the World Wide Web

Kevin Moroney

This article presents the process and the findings of an internship project, the goal of which was to locate religious and theological resources on the World Wide Web that would…

Dada: a pathfinder

Cassandra M. Porter

Provides background to the Dada movement, founded by expatriates mainly from Europe in the period from the middle to the end of World War I; and gives guidance on developing a…

Consider the source: a case against outsourcing materials selection in academic libraries

Charles Willett

Based on a talk given at the ALCTS/CMDS meeting at ALA Midwinter 1998, argues that outsourcing approval plans to vendors creates a prejudice against the alternative press…