This bibliographic guide is inteded to aid schools in improving their collections of reference materials for Advanced Placement courses. Books and periodicals are listed in groups costing $500 each. The first group is a basic collection of over 140 items; the second group is a listing of over 120 items to be added for a more extensive collection. Also listed are "Barron's" Studies in English and Continental Literature" (11 items), the University of Minnesota's "Pamphlets on American Writers" (28 items), the "Twayne United States Authors Series" (25 items), and literary indexes, anthologies, reference works, historical reference works, and periodicals assumed to be owned by any library participating in an Advanced Placement program (40 items). (LH)