This book, first published in 1986, contains the invaluable and enlightening perspectives of an international roster of experts on the state-of-the-art of serials librarianship and the indications for the future of the profession.
1. The Serials Department, 1975-1985 Don Lanier and Norman Vogt
2.
Dealing With Serials: A Sketch of Contextual/Organizational Response Michael
Gorman
3. Serials Organization: A Time for Reappraisal Sue Anne Harrington
4.
Serials Automation: An Annotated Bibliography and Review 1976-1984 Janis D.
Fleischmann and Jean Houghton
5. What Has Technology Done for Us Lately?
Lenore S. Maruyama
6. Serials and Automation: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Huibert Paul
7. Networking and Serials Control, 1975-1985 Gloria A. Kelley
8.
A Decade of Serials Cataloguing Jim E. Cole and Olivia M.A. Madison
9. The
AACRs and Serials Cataloguing Carole R. McIver
10. Serials Cataloguing in
Transition Lynn Mealer Cummins
11. Serials Cataloguing Developments,
1975-1985: A Personal View of Some Highlights Frank E. Sadowski, Jr.
12. And
in Hindsight . . . The Past Ten Years of Union Listing Marjorie E. Bloss
13.
Accessibility of Serials Ruth B. McBride
14. Out of the Shoebox and Into the
Computer: Serials Indexing 1975-1985 Martha Cornog
15. Article Access: Too
Easy? Martin Gordon
16. Budgeting and Planning: A Tandem Approach Bertha R.
ALmago
17. A Lesson Learned the Hard Way, or, the Cost of Relinquishing
Acquisitions Control Donna M. Goehner
18. Serials Claiming Mary J. Bostic
19.
The Use of Microforms in Libraries: Concerns of the Last Ten Years Jean
Walter Farrington
20. Store It, But Don't Ignore It Valerie Jackson Feinman
21. Introducing Serials Education Thomas W. Leonhardt
22. Access to U.S.
Government Periodicals in Health Sciences Libraries: An Overview Valerie
Florance
23. 1975-1985: Formulative Years for the Subscription Agency Rebecca
T. Lenzini and Judith Horn
24. Serials at the British Library Lending
Division Stella Pilling and David Wood
25. A Decade of Serials Librarianship
in Australia: An Overview Jean A. Conochie
26. Serials Librarianship in India
K.C. Garg and S.P. Gupta
27. Serials Librarianship in Nigeria, 1975-1985
Briggs C. Nzotta
28. Ten Years of Living With Magazines W.A. Katz
29. The
Journal, Scholarly Communication, and the Future Kathy G. Tomajko and Miriam
Drake
Peter Gellatly