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More and more adults are using the local public library to research their family history or the history of the community. Conrad (university archivist and coordinator of oral history, East Texas State U.) covers the essentials of getting a new local history program underway: planning, need analysis,

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Conrad emphasizes planning new and expanding existing services in a volume of practical guidelines for setting up small and medium-sized library programs in local history, genealogy, and oral history. He distinguishes between primary and secondary source materials in terms of both a service's mission and collection development, and he discusses the implications students working on school assignments and genealogy buffs have for collection planning, budgeting, and service. Particularly useful are sample forms for budget planning, collection development, accession logging, deeds of gift, and oral-history interview agreements. Index. --Charles Harmon