Summary of Features and ArticlesApril 2009
Editorial: All Fall Down, by Irving E. Rockwood. In these difficult economic times, dialogue between scholarly publishers and research libraries would be more helpful than one-sided recommendations.
Legal Research: An Introduction to Key Online and Print Sources, by Jeffrey Knapp, reference and instructional librarian at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. jak47@psu.edu.
Knapp evaluates resources for finding primary and secondary sources of legal information, resources for understanding the legal process, and resources tailored to legal research.
Recent, New & Forthcoming Electronic Media, 2009. Regularly appearing each year in the April issue, this selected list provides information on new titles of potential relevance for academic libraries. This year's list offers more than seventy-five electronic resources.
U.S. College Book Price Information, 2008. This book price compilation, based on books reviewed in Choice during the 2008 calendar year, was prepared under the sponsorship of the Library Materials Price Index Editorial Board of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.
About the Cover: Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons, Champlain College, Burlington, VT. Janet Cottrell, library director. Kathleen Landwehrle, photographer.
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