A step-by-step guide to working with vertical files and its alternatives based on Shirley Miller's Vertical Files and its Satellites, second edition (Libraries Unlimited, 1979), this volume introduces new resources, new products and new techniques, and serves as a guide to specific kinds of supplementary materials. The general approach and the coverage of topics has been changed, placing the emphasis on alternatives.

Pamphlets and clippings are compact, retrievable, current, unique and authoritative. They enable librarians with limited budgets to cover many otherwise financially prohibitive subjects. With these features, vertical files are becoming increasingly attractive to school, public and academic librarians. This book is designed for library staff members working on their library's vertical file, or those wanting to set one up.

Information Resources in Toxicology, Third Edition is a sourcebook for anyone who needs to know where to find toxicology information. It provides an up-to-date selective guide to a large variety of sources--books, journals, organizations, audiovisuals, internet and electronic sources, and more. For the Third Edition, the editors have selected, organized, and updated the most relevant information available. New information on grants and other funding opportunities, physical hazards, patent literature, and technical reports have also been added.This comprehensive, time-saving tool is ideal for toxicologists, pharmacologists, drug companies, testing labs, libraries, poison control centers, physicians, legal and regulatory professionals, and chemists. Serves as an all-in-one resource for toxicology information New edition includes information on publishers, grants and other funding opportunities, physical hazards, patent literature, and technical reports Updated to include the latest internet and electronic sources, e-mail addresses, etc. Provides valuable data about the new fields that have emerged within toxicological research; namely, the biochemical, cellular, molecular, and genetic aspects

Twenty-eight contributions from reference librarians discuss a variety of professional issues. Topics include, for example, orientation for the new reference librarian, customer service at the reference desk, working in a teaching library, reference assistance to remote users, training student information assistants, and professional development. The volume has been published simultaneously as The Reference Librarian, nos.72 and 73, 2001. Readers must bypass four pages of advertising ahead of the title page. c. Book News Inc.

Demonstrating how a dynamic student assistant program can be integrated into the school's educational program, this book provides library media specialists with an idea book and guide to expanding library services with limited resources. Bard offers practical guidance in planning, setting up, managing, and evaluating the program, always relating media center tasks to the curriculum and learning. She goes beyond the conventional approach of using students to help with circulation and reshelving materials to explore such exciting possibilities as casting students in the roles of peer teachers and engaging assistants in library promotions. Appendixes include curriculum plans; goals, objectives, and learning activities; management forms, sample by-laws for student clubs, guidelines for preparing pathfinders and vertical files; and essays by practicing librarians on how to create a supportive environment for student assistants. Designed for school media specialists, this book will also benefit public and

Locating supplementary resources; Technical and mechanical processes; Pamphlets and clippings; Clippings; Vocational material; Local history; Maps; Pictorial materials; Special files and folders.

Designed to help novices get started in providing basic-level services to patrons of their library, this book separates professional tasks from others, indicating when expertise is needed above and beyond the use of common sense and natural organization skills. The author's A-to-Z approach covers the entire realm of a librarian's responsibilities, offering simple and straightforward advice on topics that range from shelf arrangement, classification systems, and reference services to collection development, staff management, and self-evaluation. With a multitude of ideas, tips, and guidelines and an annotated bibliography of professional reading, a glossary, a list of library abbreviations, job descriptions, evaluation forms, and a list of professional associations, the book is a treasury of information for beginners.