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Peer reviewedHarmeyer, Dave – College & Research Libraries, 1995
Presents a 1992 study which discovered and investigated collection development bias in academic and public libraries in California. The investigation was carried out in five stages: (1) selected a controversial topic; (2) identified representative works; (3) ranked works by qualified judges; (4) measured holdings via library online computer…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bias, Case Studies, Censorship
Katz, Bill, Ed.; Katz, Linda Sternberg, Ed. – 1995
Today, as the needs of libraries change and librarians face shrinking budgets, selecting the best periodicals from over 147,000 possibilities becomes ever more difficult. This guide simplifies the task by offering the guidance of 150 experts who have screened and evaluated the universe of periodicals to produce this annotated list of approximately…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
