CARL March 2007 issue

Academic Subject Guides: A Case Study of Use at San Jose State University Shannon M. Stately was a good read and well summarized by the abstract (link above). Though the results first seemed a death knell for Subject Guides, the Online Articles & Databases pages as well as E-Journals and Web Site Search Engines were familiar to over 50% of most students. The data was from Nursing, Journalism, and Organization & Management students, primarily undergraduate upperclassmen. Best point: Library instruction leads to greater subject guide use.

Analysis of a Decade of Library Literature Kelly Blessinger and Michele Frasier will be primarily useful when deciding what journals to browse or where to submit those pre-tenure papers, but isn't really a revelation about the subjects of contemporary library literature.

The book reviews were pretty good, I am now aware of a pretty significant book on The Economics of Attention