Selected information sources in business and economics held by the Arkansas University library are listed. Items are organized by material type, including indexes, directories, atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, handbooks, and newspapers. Separate listings of Moody's and Standard and Poor's looseleaf publications are…

The information sources on women which are listed were selected from the holdings of the Arkansas University library. Materials are grouped by type and include almanacs and documentaries, bibliographies, biographical sources, library book catalogs, directories, guides and handbooks, literature and literary criticism sources, newspapers and…

This guide to the basic literature on self sufficient living presents current selection tools for use by public librarians. Sections are narrative and describe a newspaper, a magazine, a specialized publishing company, out-of-print sources, government publications, a specialized lending library, and miscellaneous publications. (KP)

Laws governing the deposit of materials in national collections to form national bibliographies are described for 61 countries. Existing laws are summarized in a synoptic survey, with highlights given for each country. The laws of each country are outlined alphabetically by country with information on: (1) deposit regulations; (2) types of…

Although an increasingly large proportion of Americans are living to be 65, evidence indicates that little is being done to alleviate the problems of declining health diminishing income, limited mobility and social interaction, and the disproportionately severe effects of inflation upon the elderly. Despite the fact that this age group is becoming…

The development of undergraduate library collections is shown under two aspects: (1) the formation of the basic collection of the Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan, and (2) the problems, practical and theoretial, encountered in the day-to-day effort to maintain the collection. The budget is the sire of all selection criteria.…

The University of New Mexico libraries contain one of the finest collections of Luso-Brazilian materials available in the United States. The more than 10,000 items in that collection, which is especially strong in history and literature and divided almost equally between Portuguese and Brazilian subjects, are listed for the benefit of students,…

A survey of the present reference resources was conducted as part of the Appalachia Improved Reference Services, a federally funded program to up-grade reference services in eight libraries in four counties in East Central Ohio. General recommendations include: (1) the libraries need recent materials, especially text type materials in the basic…

There is a direct relationship between the care with which the book collection is developed and the success of the library. Questions which must be answered before developing a selection policy statement include: How large, broad or intensive should the periodical collection be? What should the policy be on back files of periodicals? On periodical…

This list of free North American and British periodicals is designed to support the curriculum in junior and senior secondary schools and to serve as a resource for teachers and teacher-librarians. The criteria for inclusion were the content, the frequency per year (at least twice), and the value to the teacher and student. Although the list is…

This selection of children's books, compiled by the staff members of the New York Public Library, includes old favorites and suggested new publications. The books in the collection are mostly representative of the current year. Recordings are also included. (CS)

This paper provides a list of periodicals which supplement the curriculum in a vocational technical secondary school. It covers the literature published during 1970-73. For each periodical, the entry includes title, publisher, current cost, frequency of publication, indexing information, and priority for buying the periodical. It indicates…

A product of a library science seminar on Appalachian library materials at West Virginia University, this selective bibliography includes school library materials in print about, relating to, or rooted in Appalachia. There are lists of fiction; poetry; drama; folklore and folk music; biography; history, geography and travel; social and…

The Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) which started in 1956 with the meeting of a representative group of librarians and bookmen invited by the University of Florida and the Pan American Union, "to consider the problems involved in finding, buying, and controlling library materials related to Latin…

If citations are concentrated on a relatively small number of articles within individual journals as well as between different journals, selections of key articles can be published that should satisfy a high percentage of library demand for back runs at low purchase cost. To test this hypothesis, a test was carried out on self-citations in three…