LIBRARY NOTES
Helping the Visitors Committee
Tuesday, September 1, 1998
Readers of the last issue of Library Notes may have spotted a call for help in assessing the Library's holdings in history. The Visitors' Committee would like to expand this request for assistance in evaluating these collections in the following areas: religion (Western, Eastern, Islamic, other); politics (political science), education; life sciences; medicine (excluding psychology); evolutionary biology and history; social problems and services; engineering and applied sciences; computers; photography; European literature (excluding French); classical literature and culture; British literature; Spanish and South American literature and culture; travel (excluding Italy); poetry; biography; and fiction (separate reports: American, European, South American, etc.).
Members who are willing to visit and report on the Library's collections in the field(s) in which they have some expertise perform an invaluable service. The Visitors' reports are an important part of our acquisition program, as they help to ensure the breadth and pertinence of the Library's holdings for its present and future users. The reports can be simple and concise, and doing them is easier now that the card catalog is online. We hope to hear from any and all members who can give us a hand with these much-needed reports, or reports in areas we have not listed above.
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