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Lopez, Manuel D. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Describes a study that established criteria for judging the scholarly value of dissertations and disproved the assumption that good dissertations will be published. Bibliographic access to dissertations is reviewed, and the need for librarians to reevaluate their attitudes toward policies governing dissertation acquisition is discussed. (27…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Libraries, Doctoral Dissertations, Evaluation Criteria

Rawan, Atifa R.; Mitchell, Robert – Government Publications Review, 1991
Reports the results of a survey of Arizona libraries that gathered information on the collection development policies for state and local government publications. Problems that result from not having a depository system for state publications are discussed, cataloging and classification practices are examined, and use of bibliographic utilities…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Classification, Depository Libraries
Dahl, Katherine – 1989
A librarian at the Western Illinois University Library examined a list of the approximately 380 current subscribers to the Alternative Press Index (API), which has been the only access point to most periodicals on the political left since its beginning in 1969, in order to see who and what kinds of libraries receive the index. The Library Bill of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Indexes, Interviews