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The article mentions academic librarian Randal Brandt's exhibit, "Bullets Across the Bay," which is showing at the University of California, Berkeley's Doe Library through February 29, 2012 and notes Brandt's online bibliography "Golden Gate Mysteries" which is located at bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery.

Reports that the first institution dedicated to creating bibliographies, the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR), has been established at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). Evolution of the CBSR from UCR's Eaton Program in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the 18th-Century Short Title Catalog (STC), two bibliographical research projects; Descriptions of the 18th-Century STC and the Eaton Collection; Outlook for the CBSR to be directed by history professor Henry L. Snyder.

Presents news briefs relating to libraries and librarians. Report on changes which will occur at the School of Computer, Information and Library Sciences at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Announcement by Facts on File and Bruccoli Clark Layman of the projections for "Bibliography of United States Literature," the first volume of which will be published in 1990; Report that the Los Angeles Public Library was the only California recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grants; Naming of Diana Thomas as acting dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California at Los Angeles; Publishers which were charged with discrimination against independent bookstores; The barring of British book publishers by the European Community Commission from setting minimum prices for book exports to other countries in the European Community; Election of Phyllis VanOrden as president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.