AN EXAMINATION OF THE INCLUSION OF A SAMPLE OF SELECTED WOMEN AUTHORS IN BOOKS FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES

This exploratory study identifies some of the characteristics of the three editions of Books for College Libraries (BCL) in relation to literature by women. A sample of fifty authors selected from The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English, a canon in the field of women's studies, is compared to the holdings of set, a highly respected-core bibliography far undergraduate libraries. Forty-two of the fifty authors in the sample are included in BCL. Three hundred eighteen unique titles appear in BCL for the sample of authors. Sixty-four percent of the publishers of the titles in this study that appear in BCL are published by trade publishing companies.