This 1974/75 survey with a follow-up study in 1980 assembles data on the management and use of vertical file (VF) collections in the 18 libraries of the City University of New York. Results of questionnaires sent to 188 reference department heads or reference librarians show that the sizes of the VF collections studied range from 1,000 to 79,000…

This manual is the textbook for a two-unit course for upper division students at a middle-sized university academic research library, the University of California Santa Barbara Library. The book introduces search strategy for finding information for a term paper. After discussing factual information about library collections, classification, card…

This workbook is the text for a self-paced, programmed one-unit course which teaches about library resources and their use at the University of California Santa Barbara Library, a medium-sized academic university research library. It provides freshmen and incoming students with the basic information they need to know in order to use the library:…