Reference & User Services Quarterly articles from December 2004

Reference & User Services Quarterly archives from December 2004

Remembering Bill Katz
December 22, 2004... The Reference and User Services Association, readers of Reference & User Services Quarterly, the library world, and several generations of students of reference and information services were saddened by the September 12, 2004 death of...

Music Research and Reference on the Internet
December 22, 2004... This guest-authored column represents a first: the only "Alert Collector" column on the topic of music. Generalists working in libraries of all types and sizes often find questions about music daunting. I conducted a quick search in the Library...

A Digital Library to Serve a Region: The Bioregion and First Nations Collections of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives
December 22, 2004... The Southern Oregon Digital Archives (http://soda. sou.edu) provides a wealth of research materials on the regional ecology and indigenous peoples of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum...

The Three Arenas of Information Literacy Assessment
December 22, 2004... The organizational and published resources devoted to the assessment of information literacy have been steadily increasing over the last decade. Three major contributors can be thanked for this increase: (1) higher education regional accrediting...

Outstanding business reference sources: the 2004 selection of recent titles.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... RUSA BRASS Business Reference Sources Committee In an effort to aid selectors and reference librarians serving business interests, a working group of the BRASS Business Reference Sources Committee, following established guidelines and...

Business and industry.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Business and Industry. Ed. by William R. Childs, Scott B. Martin, and Wanda Stitt-Gohdes. 11 vols. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2004. 1,584p. $459 (0-7614-7430-7). Marshall Cavendish has delivered a unique and beautiful multivolume...

Encyclopedia of Leadership.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Leadership. Ed. by George R. Goethals, Georgia Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns. 4 vols. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2004. 2,120p. $595 (ISBN: 0-7619-2597-X). The emerging discipline of leadership is captured in all...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Ed. by Joel Mokyr. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003. 2,824p. $695 (ISBN 0-19510507-9). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History is a five-volume comprehensive and scholarly work...

Strauss's Handbook of Business Information: a Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Strauss's Handbook of Business Information: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers. By Rita W. Moss. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 455p. $85 (1-56308-520-8). The world of business and of business information is...

Other Notable Titles
December 22, 2004... African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs. By Rachel Kranz. New York: Facts On File, 2004. 336p. $44 (0-81605-101-1). This work covers 160 business leaders from our national origins to present day. Although most of these...

The Changing Roles of Academic Reference Librarians over a Ten-Year Period
December 22, 2004... This study assessed the role changes that occurred for academic reference librarians front 1991 to 2001. It provides information related to the types of job activities performed and the relative amount of time spent on these activities by the...

The Reference and Information Services Team: An Alternative Model for Managing Reference Services
December 22, 2004... During the late 1990s, The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library's administration instituted the Reference and Information Services Team and gave it the responsibility and authority to manage the library's reference services as well as...

A Class Assignment Requiring Chat-Based Reference
December 22, 2004... An instructor in a scholarly writing course assigned her students to use the library chat-based reference service. Interacting with these students required a different set of skills and strategies on the part of the librarians than those used in...

Dictionary of Cognitive Science: Neuroscience, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Dictionary of Cognitive Science: Neuroscience, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy. Ed. by Olivier Houde. New York: Psychology Pr., 2004. 428p. $165 (ISBN 1-57958-251-6). Dictionary off Cognitive Science is an...

Dictionary of Literary Influences: the Twentieth Century, 1914-2000.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000. Ed. by John Powell. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004. 627p. alkaline $115 (ISBN 0-313-31784-4). As John Powell points out in his introduction, the "study of literary...

Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents. Ed. by Susan Rosenfeld. New York: Facts on File, 2004. 3 vols. acid free $300 (ISBN 0-8160-4995-5). The purpose of Encyclopedia of American Historical Documents is to provide "a valuable...

Encyclopedia of Capitalism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Capitalism. Ed. by Syed B. Hussain. Facts on File Library of World History. New York: Facts on File, 2004. 3 vols. acid free $22S (ISBN 0-8160-5224-7). The Encyclopedia of Capitalism's coverage is very inclusive. The 750...

Encyclopedia of Federal Agencies and Commissions.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Federal Agencies and Commissions. By Kathleen Thompson Hill and Gerald N. Hill. New York: Facts on File, 2004. 504p. acid free $95 (ISBN 0-8160-4843-6). The enormous and enormously complicated federal bureaucracy is the...

Encyclopedia of Health & Behavior.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior. Ed. by Norman B. Anderson. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2004. 2 vols. acid free $350 (ISBN 0-7619-2360-8). This 968-page, well-written, heavily indexed reference work focuses on "the dynamic domain of...

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Ed. by Richard C. Martin. New York: Macmillan, 2004. 2 vols. $265 (ISBN 0-02-865603-2). The two-volume Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World is a work of tremendous scope. Articles of...

Encyclopedia of Leadership.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Leadership. Ed. by George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2004.4 vols. $595 (ISBN 0-7619-2597-X). Leadership studies is a rapidly growing, multidisciplinary field,...

Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. Ed. by Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 713p. alkaline $175 (ISBN: 1-57958-384-9). The Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought focuses on the wide range and influence of...

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. Yd. by Robert M. Goodman. New York: Dekker, 2004. 1,329p. acid free $395 (ISBN 0-8247-0944-6). The goal of this work is to cross the boundaries of botany and crop sciences by treating both...

Global History: Cultural Encounters from Antiquity to the Present.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Global History: Cultural Encounters from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. By David W. Del Testa, Florence Lemoine, and John Strickland. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, 2004. 4 vols. alkaline $325 (ISBN 0-76568043-2). The editors of this four-volume...

Historical Dictionary of Iraq.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Historical Dictionary of Iraq. By Edmund A. Ghareeb with Beth Dougherty. Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East, No. 44. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2004. 459p. acid free $85 (ISBN 0-8108-4330-7). At the beginning of...

Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor. Ed. by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004. 2 vols. alkaline $175 (ISBN 0-313-31840-9). The Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor fills a serious gap in...

Social Science Resources in the Electronic Age.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Social Science Resources in the Electronic Age. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004.5 vols. alkaline $299.95 (ISBN 1-57356589-X set). Vol. 1: World History by Elizabeth H. Oakes and Mehrdad Kia; Vol. 2: U.S. History by Elizabeth H. Oakes and...

The Islamic World: Past and Present.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Islamic World: Past and Present. Ed. by John L. Esposito. Oxford Univ. Pr., 2004. 3 vols. alkaline $32S (ISBN 0-19516520-9). For the most part, The Islamic World: Past and Present is a reworking of the earlier Oxford Encyclopedia of...

The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers. By Jim Willis. Canton, Mich.: Visible Ink, 2004. 490p. $52 (ISBN 07808-0722-7). Jim Willis, a minister and retired professor of comparative religion, leaves few stones unturned in...

The U.S. Legal System.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The U.S. Legal System. Ed. by Timothy L. Hall. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2004. 2 vols. alkaline $104 (ISBN 1-58765-189-0). The U.S. Legal System is a two-volume set that aims to emphasize basic legal concepts and offer practical guidance...

U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library.(U.S. Immigration and Migration: Almanac. By Sonia Benson. 2 vols)(U.S. Immigration and Migration: Biographies)(Immigration and Migration: Primary Sources.)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library. Detroit: Gale, 2004. U.S. Immigration and Migration: Almanac. By Sonia Benson. 2 vols. alkaline $105 (ISBN 0-7876-7732-9). U.S. Immigration and Migration: Biographies. By James L. Outman,...

The Librarian's Copyright Companion.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Librarian's Copyright Companion. By James S. Heller, Buffalo, N.Y.: Hein, 2004. 2S7p. $4S (ISBN 0-8377-3300-6). www. wshein.com The Librarian's Copyright Companion is a surprisingly interesting and valuable addition to the...

Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes. By Trudi E. Jacobson and Lijuan Xu. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. 143p. $59.95 (ISBN 1-55570-497-2). www.neal-schuman.com Weighing in at just 143 pages, Trudi Jacobson and Lijuan Xu's...

The Organization of Information, 2nd Ed.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Organization of Information, 2d ed. By Arlene G. Taylor. Library and Information Text Series. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 417p. $50 (ISBN 1-56308-969-6). The second edition of Arlene Taylor's The Organization of...

Performance Management and Appraisal: a How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Performance Management and Appraisal: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. By G. Edward Evans. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004. How-To-Do-It Manuals for Librarians, No. 123. 292p. $75 (ISBN 1-55570-498-0). www.neal-schuman. com Performance...

Project Management: Tools and Techniques for Today's ILS Professional.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Project Management: Tools and Techniques for Today's ILS Professional. By Barbara Allan. London: Facet, 2004. 193p. $75 (ISBN 85604-504-8). www.facet publishing.co.uk Project management is a practice and a responsibility that can be...

Uncovering Our History: Teaching with Primary Sources.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Uncovering Our History: Teaching with Primary Sources. By Susan H. Veccia. Chicago: ALA, 2004. 143p. $35 (ISBN 08389-0862-4). The title of this book is somewhat misleading. While this volume does focus on teaching with primary sources, it...

Virtual Reference Training: The Complete Guide to Providing Anytime, Anywhere Answers.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Virtual Reference Training: The Complete Guide to Providing Anytime, Anywhere, Answers. By Buff Hirko and Mary Bucher Ross. Chicago: ALA, 2004. 160 p. $42 (ISBN 0-8389-0876-4). www.ala.org As virtual reference increasingly becomes a...