Reference Services Review: Volume 28 Issue 2

Delivering electronic resources with Web OPACs and other Web‐based tools: needs of reference librarians

Sever Bordeianu, Christina E. Carter, Nancy K. Dennis

As technology changes, so do methods for delivering electronic information resources to library users. Describes Web‐based online public access catalogs (Web OPACS) and other…

The librarian’s apprentice: reference graduate assistants

Kay Womack, Karen Rupp‐Serrano

Many libraries utilize graduate assistants in a variety of programmatic areas. Little research, however, has been conducted as to how such students are recruited, selected and…

New form(at): using the Web to teach research and critical thinking skills

Naomi Lederer

States that at Colorado State University, the library liaison works with the director of the first‐year composition program to design Web pages for courses. Updated annually…

A digital herbal

Elizabeth Choinski, Nancy Fuller

The use of herbal medicines for various ailments has become commonplace. The Internet provides a valuable reference tool for finding information about herbal medicines, the herbal…

Superconductivity: a selective bibliography

Michael Fosmire

The phenomenon of superconductivity has been studied for 90 years, with the latest surge in popularity occurring in the late 1980s, when high‐temperature superconductors were…

Personal Web pages as professional activities: an exploratory study

Angela E. Weaver

Explores the possibility of considering the creation and maintenance of reference librarians’ personal Web sites as part of their professional duties. After reviewing a sample of…

Through the Web: door to academic libraries

Marian Shemberg

The Web sites of 125 academic libraries were searched during the summer of 1999 to find information about the libraries. These sites were accessed from their respective research…

Censoring Lady Chatterley’s Lover: a case study and bibliographic guide

Grove Koger, Larry Kincaid

D.H. Lawrence thought Lady Chatterley’s Lover was his best and most important novel. Yet he had to pay to have it privately printed. His publishers thought his sexual descriptions…