Reference & User Services Quarterly articles from September 2001

Reference & User Services Quarterly archives from September 2001

O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us (1): Or, What Referees Look for in a Manuscript. (from the Editors)
September 22, 2001... Over the past year, we've been encouraging members and other readers to share their thoughts and experiences by publishing in this journal. This column continues that train of thought by acquainting authors with criteria for success. It's...

Errata.(www.introductiontoislam.com)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... We've learned that one of the URLs in the bibliography provided in "Recent Reference Sources in Islam: Building a Core Collection" ("The Alert Collector," RUSQ 40:2), www.introductiontoislam.com, is no longer what the author originally...

GIS in Business: Building a Core Collection for Business Geographics. (the Alert Collector)
September 22, 2001... When James Galbraith and Bryna Coonin approached me about contributing a column on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources for business applications, the timing could not have been more perfect. I had just attended a guest presentation...

Collaboration Generates Synergy: Saint Paul Public Library the College of St. Catherine, and the "Family Place" Program. (Community Building)
September 22, 2001... This issue's column demonstrates a community building project in St. Paul, Minnesota, involving faculty and students working with the public library to serve immigrant parents and children. Collaboration is a hot topic in librarianship....

Hot Topics on the Web: Strategies for Research. (off the Shelf & onto the Web)
September 22, 2001... Some of the pitfalls of research on the Web are highlighted and exacerbated when the type of research being done is for "hot," controversial, or debatable topics. Who to trust, where to find the information, and how to determine what is reliable...

When oprah meets e-mail: virtual book clubs. (Readers' Advisory).(Oprah Winfrey)(Directory)
September 22, 2001... One of the interesting phenomena of the Information Age is the simultaneous growth of super bookstores and adult reading groups with the rise of the Internet and other forms of instant, technological connectivity. Libraries are hosting many...

Best Free Reference Web Sites: Third Annual List RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section. (from Committees of RUSA)
September 22, 2001... The Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) appointed an ad hoc task force at the American Library Association's 1998 Annual Conference to develop a method of recognizing outstanding...

Reference and Information Services for Young Adults: A Research Study of Public Libraries in New Jersey
September 22, 2001... This study is intended to contribute to the discussion of important issues in library services to young adults by reporting the results of a survey of all of the public libraries in New Jersey--a large, diverse, well-populated state, with a...

A New Classification for Reference Statistics
September 22, 2001... Two major changes in an academic health sciences library led to the reexamination of the method of keeping client transaction statistics and to the development of a new classification system for them. One was a library-wide project to review how...

A Comparison of the Usefulness of IBZ and FRANCIS for Historical Research
September 22, 2001... Two major online European journal indexes are examined to determine how useful they are in retrieving citations for materials of interest to historians. Three techniques were used: an examination of the top ten journals in history by Institute...

The Essential IVP Reference Collection. (Databases)
September 22, 2001... Version 1. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Pr., 2001 $169 (ISBN 0-8308-1455-8). www.gospelcom.net/irpress. Requirements: IBM-compatible Pentium class PC; 16 MB RAM; 2X or higher CD-ROM drive; Windows-compatible printer and mouse. The...

The American Civil War: The War in the East, 1861-May 1863.(Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The American Civil war: the war in the East, 1861-May 1863. By Gary W. Gallagher. Essential histories. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.96p. $30 (ISBN 1-57958-356-3). www.fitzroydearborn.com Gary W. Gallagher, noted military historian and...

America's historic sites.(Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... America's historic sites. Ed. by editors of Salem Pr. and Tracy Irons-Georges. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2001.3 vols. alkaline $315 (ISBN 0-89356-122-3) This three-volume guide describes in detail 135 famous U.S. sites. Nearly all of the...

Animal Life Cycles: Growing up in the Wild. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Animal life cycles: growing up in the wild. By Tony Hare. New York: Facts On file, 2001. 160p. $40 (ISBN 0-8160-4595X). www.factsonfile.com How favorite animals reproduce and raise their offspring is always of particular interest to young...

The Big Dictionary. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The big dictionary. By Lorren Daro. Cobb Mountain, Calif.: Lorren Daro productions, 2001. 235p. $9.95 paper (ISBN 0-9706608-0-4). www.bigdictionary.com In this first edition of The Big Dictionary, Lorren Daro has self-published a ready...

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Biographical dictionary of literary influences: the nineteenth century, 1800-1914. Ed. by John Powell. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001. 536p. alkaline $95 (ISBN 0-313-30422-X). www.greenwood.com In creating this work, Powell works from...

The Continuum Encyclopedia of children's literature. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Continuum Encyclopedia of children's literature. Ed. by Bernice E. Cullinan and Diane G. Person. New York: Continuum, 2001. 872p. alkaline $150 (ISBN 0-8264-1271-8). www.continuumbooks.com The book is "intended as a comprehensive...

Earth Science. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Earth Science. Ed. by James A. Woodhead. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2001. 5 vols. alkaline $450 (ISBN 089356-000-6) The arrangement of this very interesting five-volume encyclopedia set is not alphabetic, although paging is consecutive and...

Encyclopedia of Busine$$ and Finance. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Encyclopedia of Busine$$ and Finance. Ed. by Burton S. Kaliski. New York: Macmillan, 2001. 2 vols. $225 (ISBN 002-865065-4). www.mlr.com, www.galegroup.com The purpose of this 928-page, two-volume encyclopedia is "to summarize the body...

Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings, and Series. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings, and Series. By Richard B. Armstrong and Mary W. Armstrong. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2001. 237p. alkaline $75 (ISBN 0-7864-0893-6). www.mcfarlandpub.com "Well, the spring turf is sprouting in the...

Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Ed. by Louise S. Grinstein and Sally I. Lipsey. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001. 879p. alkaline $195 (ISBN 0-81531647-X) Mathematics education is becoming a vigorous, well-documented field in every...

Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Humans in the World's Ecosystems. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: humans in the world's ecosystems. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2000. 11 vols. $1,000 (ISBN 0-7876-4506-0). www.galegroup.com The 2000 Gale Group edition of the Encyclopedia of the Biosphere is an...

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Paul Finkelman. New York: Scribner, 2001.3 vols. alkaline $325 (ISBN 0-684-80500-6). www.galegroup.com, www.mlr.com At the start of the nineteenth century, the United...

The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration. By Patricia D. Netzley. Westport, Conn.: Oryx, 2001. 272p. alkaline $65 (ISBN 1-57356-238-6). www.oryxpress.com In a one-volume encyclopedia, Patricia Netzley tackles a subject never...

Endangered Peoples of Oceania: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Endangered Peoples of Oceania: struggles to survive and thrive. Ed. by Judith M. Fitzpatrick. Endangered Peoples of the World. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001. 288p. alkaline $45 (ISBN 0-313-30640-0). www.greenwood.com. As outlined by...

Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century: Biographical Portraits. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century: biographical portraits. Ed. by Everett Mendelsohn. Scribner Science Reference Series, vol. 2. New York: Scribner, 2001. 224p. $80 (ISBN 0-684-80647-9). www.galegroup.com, www.mlr.com This is the...

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy. Ed. by John Zumerchik. New York: Macmillan, 2001. 3 vols. $350 (ISBN 0-02865021-2). www.mlr.com The purpose of this three-volume interdisciplinary work is to provide the general reader with information on...

Magill's Guide to Military History. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Magill's Guide to Military History. Ed. by John Powell Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2001. 5 vols. alkaline $450 (ISBN 089356-014-6) This reference work provides a "survey of wars, battles, people, groups, and civilizations that played an...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible. Ed. by John Rogerson. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2001. 416p. $40 (ISBN 0-19-860118-2). www.oup.com While numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias of the Bible already exist, there have been...

Plant Sciences. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Plant Sciences. Ed. by Richard Robinson. New York: Macmillan, 2001.4 vols. $325 (ISBN 0-02-865434-X). www.mlr.com Macmillan's Plant Sciences encyclopedia has a broad scope: its entries seek to trace a 450-million-year history from the...

Plunkett's Biotech and Genetics Industry Almanac. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Plunkett's Biotech and Genetics Industry Almanac. Ed. by Jack W. Plunkett. Houston: Plunkett Research, 2001. 600p. $199.99 paper (ISBN 1-891775-18-9). Includes CD-ROM. www.pluckettresearch.com Plunkett's Biotech and Genetics Industry...

Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians. Ed. by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub., 2001. 680p. $44.95 (ISBN 0-8063-1648-9) The pursuit of genealogy is one of the...

Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. (Reference Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. Ed. by Jonathan Michie. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 2 vols. $285 (ISBN 1-57958-091-2). www.fitzroydearborn.com Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences is a well-organized, useful introduction to...

Shakespeare's World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students. (Refernce Books).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Shakespeare's World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. by John F. Andrews. New York: Scribner, 2001. 3 vols. $295 (ISBN 0-684-80629-0). www.galegroup.com, www.mlr.com This vibrant and lucid reference set achieves its goal of...

Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries. Ed. by Helen Laurence and William Miller. Journal of Library Administration 30, no. 1-4, 2000. New York: Haworth, 2000. 389p. $49.95 paper, $79.95 cloth (ISBN 07890-1177-8...

Audio Collections and Services. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Audio Collections and Services. By Susan G. Baird. Fort Atkinson, Wis.: Highsmith, 2001. 85p. $19 (ISBN 1-57950-034-X) www.hpress.highsmith.com This title serves as an introduction and guide to audiobook collections, covering planning to...

Book Repair. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Book Repair. 2d ed. By Kenneth Lavender. How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, #107. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001. 269p. $45 (ISBN 1-5570-408-5). www.nealschuman.com In the first edition of Book Repair (Neal-Schuman, 1992), Lavender...

The Economics of Information: A Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Economics of Information: A Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. 2d ed. By Bruce Kingma. Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. 180p. $45 (ISBN 56308-816-9) www.lu.com. There is a growing premium on...

Library Evaluation: A Casebook and Can-Do Guide. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Library Evaluation: A Casebook and Can-Do Guide. Ed. by Danny P. Wallace and Connie Van Fleet. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. 237p. $45 (ISBN 1-56308-862-2). www.lu.com Library evaluation, although a sometimes difficult and...

Making the Case for Your Library: A How-to-Do-It Manual. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Making the Case for Your Library: A How-to-Do-It Manual. By Sally Gardner Reed. How-to-Do-It-Manuals for Librarians, no. 104. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001. 143p. $45 (ISBN 1-55570-399-2). www.neal-schuman.com Reed shares a message about...

Neal-Schuman Complete Internet Companion for Librarians. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Neal-Schuman Complete Internet Companion for Librarians. 2d ed. By Allen C. Benson. Neal-Schuman NetGuide Series. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001. 566p. Includes CD-ROM. $79.95 (ISBN 1-55570-414-X). www.neal-schuman.com With the...

Protecting Library Staff, Users, Collections, and Facilities: A How-to-Do-It Manual. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Protecting Library Staff, Users, Collections, and Facilities: A How-to-Do-It Manual. By Pamela J. Cravey. How-to-Do-It Manual for Libraries, no. 103. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001. 175p. $55 (ISBN 1-55570-392-5). www.lu.com ...

Readers, Reading, and Librarians. (Professional Materials).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Readers, Reading, and Librarians. Ed. by Bill Katz. Acquisitions Librarian Series, no. 25. New York: Haworth, 2001. 219p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-7890-0699-5). www.haworthpress.com. This title in the Acquisitions Librarian series complements and...

Sources Received but Not Reviewed
September 22, 2001... Reference Books African American Quotations. Comp. by Richard Newman. New York: Facts On File, 2000. 504p. acid free $18.95 paper (ISBN 1-8160-4439-2). www. factsonfile.com African American Visual Artists: An Annotated Bibliography of...