Collection Building: Volume 3 Issue 2
Table of contents
Information Sources in Aging: An Annotated Bibliography
Betty TurockWhile most age groups in the United States show zero or near zero growth, older adults continue to increase in population. Futurists and demographers suggest that we are in a…
Postcards are Popular, But Not in Your Library
Bill KatzPostcards have been sold by the billions over the past 100 years or so, but you never would recognize their popularity by checking library holdings. Most libraries ignore them…
Information Resource Guide to Chemical Hazardous Wastes in the Environment
Robert J. ArmaoAccording to the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Toxic Substances, there are some 70,000 chemical compounds manufactured or processed at approximately 115,000 sites…
The Conference‐Goers' Guide to Collection Building
Elizabeth FutasAttending professional conferences can be exciting, expensive, time consuming, frustrating, rewarding—and sometimes all of these. Inflation, combined with ever‐tightening travel…
Some Radical Book and Pamphlet Publishers
Elliott ShoreIt is time for some different brand names. Librarians are notorious for unthinkingly ordering books from major publishers. There is an understandable logic at work: these are…
Let the Sunshine in: Free and Inexpensive Materials on Solar Energy
Ilse B. MoonEvery since OPEC forced us to face the fact that oil and gas were not going to be cheap and available forever, increased attention has been paid to alternative energy sources…
Notes on Contributors and Editorial Board
ROBERT J. ARMAO served for six years as an aquatic biologist for an environmental consulting firm before earning his M.L.S. at the Syracuse University School of Information…