Collection Building: Volume 7 Issue 2
Table of contents
Top Secret/Trade Secret: Restricting and Accessing Information
Ellis Mount, Wilda B. NewmanOur society could well be said to run on information. We use information so much that we tend to take it for granted. We wake up to radio broadcasts of the latest news or the…
The Psychology of Disability—A Bibliographic Essay
Penny PassikoffThe intent of this essay is to offer a range of resources on the psychology of disability to the serious researcher in the field. The researcher may be an upper‐college level or…
Tax Reform
Nobody has ever liked paying taxes, but individual grumbling is growing to a loud chorus of complaints. The system of federal income taxes has become so complex that few…
The Problems of Preservation: Can Librarians and Publishers Solve Them?
Lauren Jackson‐BeckThe preservation of library materials is a relatively recent concern of librarians. Research in this area began in the 1950s with William Barrow and his paper research…
Coordinated Collection Development in a Multitype Environment: Promise and Challenge
Keith Michael FielsImagine, if you will, that the year 2010 has arrived, and that many of the wonderful things that librarians worked so hard for in the last half of the twentieth century have come…
The Delights of the Small Library
Devoted to the Pine Hills branch of the Albany (NY) Public Library, with its approximately 35,000 books, let a dedicated user defend the principle of being small and the…
A Rag Called SHMATE
Steve FankuchenJEWS and paper. Virtually inseparable. Think of your non‐Jewish friends. Some have lots of paper around and some don't. Now think of your Jewish friends —newspapers, books, files…
Child Abuse Materials for Kids
Doris RobinsonChild 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…