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…

This research is a study of demands for books in library circulation systems. Demand data for random samples of books were collected and fitted to various standard distributions. The numbers of demands for collections of books are shown to be Negative Binomially distributed. As is shown, this implies that the numbers of demands for individual…

Social change in the 1960's has created a new climate for literary expression in the coming years. In order to emphasize the change in reading taste, and the corresponding change in writing fiction, the Oregon State Library sponsored a workshop dealing with book selection in this new era. Many communities in Oregon are conservative in their…

Research libraries are urged to take part in a National Preservation Program for their most important library materials. Techniques of conservation of past and current materials, including microfilming and storage at low temperatures, are discussed, while a national preservation center which would store materials is also proposed. Development of…

Methods for ranking journals to describe the cost effectiveness of journal acquisition are explored. (PF)

Discusses six concerns related to media selection: 1) broader provision and use of available selection tools; 2) improved bibliographic control of nonprint media; 3) widespread development of educational media selection centers; 4) improved preparation of librarians in media selection; 5) active participation by teachers in collection building;…