CDL: _Guide to Reference Books_

From: Bob Kieft <rkieft_at_haverford.edu>

In my capacity as General Editor of the forthcoming 12th edition of ALA
Editions' "Guide to Reference Books," I am sending this note to 
listservs that reach reference and collection development librarians 
in order to solicit opinion from them about the book. ALA Editions 
held a focus group at ALA Annual Conference in the summer of 1999, 
and as we begin the project in earnest I thought that I would enlarge 
the body of opinion available to the project by inviting readers of 
this message to complete an online survey about their use of the Guide 
and its place in their work. The survey will be found at:

http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/rkieft/grb/survey.html. 

Please take a few minutes to complete it.

Respondents may be interested to know that on Monday, January 15, at
Midwinter Conference in Washington, DC, the Reference Publishing 
Advisory Committee of RUSA/CODES will host a discussion of the Guide. 
On that occasion, I would hope to raise some of the larger questions a
sked on the survey form and to hear from librarians in attendance any 
views they would care to share about the Guide. You will find 
particulars about the session on the Committee's website at

http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/brpac/midwinterpgm.htm. 

I hope to see many readers of this message there.

Thanks in advance for completing the survey form.

Bob Kieft
Librarian of the College
Magill Library
Haverford College
Haverford, PA 19041-1392
rkieft_at_haverford.edu