Argues that the role expected of libraries is significantly different now from what it was for nearly 95 percent of the span of library history, and that this change of purpose has not been reflected in the current budgetary and management priorities of librarians. Nine references are cited. (FM)

The second of a two-part series on collections of Afro-Americana discusses the history and holdings of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, and the Special Collections at the Fisk University Library. (33 references) (MES)

Describes the resources available to scholars in the library and information science collections of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Western Ontario. For each university, the description includes a history of the development of the school of library and information science as well as resources found in special…

This first of a two-part series on resources in major university music libraries contains "Rare Resources in the Yale Music Library" (Harold E. Samuel) and "The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley" (John H. Roberts). Topics discussed include special collections, rare books and manuscripts, music archives, and…

Develops a cost methodology to use in deciding location, type of access, and type of shelving to augment existing stacks in the library. Library and user costs are included in the model and cost comparisons between alternative strategies are made. Data from a specific case study are used to illustrate the model. (22 references) (Author/CLB)

This second in a two-part series on resources in major university music libraries contains: "The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University" (John B. Howard) and "The Research Collections of the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester" (Mary Wallace Davidson). (Contains 73…

Twenty-one libraries in Library Computer System participated in collection overlap study. Findings of random sample representing 1% of each collection indicate that high percentage of titles, 69.4%, occurred only once in network and that percentage of each library's collection unique to that library, ranged from 6.1% to 68.4%. (21 references) (EJS)

Examination of whether annual book budgets have kept pace with demands compares academic library book budgets in Germany and the United States in the mid-20th century with budgets of earlier years, taking into account annual book and serial production; costs of books; and the number of courses, faculty, and students. (Author/CLB)

Updates a storage cost model for academic library collections by examining how changes in construction costs and circulation costs affect the choices of an alternative book storage strategy. Results show that the most economical alternative for a large range of construction and circulation cost alternatives is to convert existing ground space to…