Serials and Reference Services

Here is one of the first books to address the problems of serials as they relate to the user, the reference librarian, and the library itself. Opening a crucial dialogue, serials librarians and reference librarians explore ways in which they can work together to make serials more accessible to the user. With this vital new book, public services librarians will gain a better understanding of the unique nature of serials, especially concerning their acquisition and cataloguing, and technical services librarians will gain a clearer view of the problems involved in interpreting the record for the user.Serials and Reference Services provides a wealth of information that will help the cataloguer who must create a record out of a dizzying change of titles, volumes, and frequency; the reference librarian who must interpret the record for the user; the bibliographer who must select titles; the manager who will be viewing the new formats for serials; and the administrator who needs an overview in order to pull disparate services together into a functioning whole. Automation is also explored and finally, a look at the core collection--newspapers, comic books, and poetry magazines--gives an eclectic ending to the volume. Tillie Krieger, Peter Hernon, David C. Heisser, David C. Taylor, and Laura Peritore are among the well-known contributors to the book.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction: Serials: A Minority Report SERIALS AND PUBLIC SERVICES The Serials Librarian and the Reference Department: A Valuable Relationship Public Access to Serials Check-in Information and Its Impact on Reference Services The Periodicals Perplex Undergraduates' Use of Periodicals--Implications for Library Reference Work The Humanist at the Reference Desk The Periodical Fables Bibliography: Emerging Relationships Between Reference and Serials SERIALS AND TECHNICAL SERVICES Narrowing the Gap: Serials Service Improved by Cooperation Between Technical and Public Services The Serials Catalog: A View From the Reference Desk Is This a Serial? What Is This Thing Called MARC(S)? Classification of Periodicals What You See May Not Be What You Get: Errors in Online Bibliographic Records for Serials On the Track of ACM SIG Publications: And What I Found SERIALS AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGY Fragmented Reference Service: Information in Self-Contained Machines Reference Use of Electronic and Optical Full-Text Databases Reference Librarians and Serial Publications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence CORE COLLECTIONS Information Needs of Minority Women and Serial Resources: A Selected Bibliography Government Periodicals and the Reference Librarian: Obstacles and Accomodations Extra! Extra! Read All About It! A Guide to the Information Provided by the United States Newspaper Program Reference Sources for Canadian Periodicals and Newspapers Subsequent Demand for Ripped-Off Journal Articles Creating Core Serials Lists in a Public Library Comic Books for Grown-ups: Introducing the Graphic Novel A Magazinist's View of the Encyclopedia of Associations Finding the Oysters With Pearls Among Poetry Magazines CURRENT TRENDS IN REFERENCE SERVICES A View of Academics' Literature Search Methods: The Case of the Social Sciences and Its Implications for Students Using a Datashow Projector to Present a Computer Search Grassroots Sharing: Organizing to Improve Reference Service Through Cooperative Projects Bestsellers and Public Service: Can Public Libraries Provide Both?