ABSTRACT
In recent years, as the numbers of new series books for children and young people have continued to grow significantly-often in response to readers' demands-keeping up bibliographically with the proliferation of these titles has confronted research librarians and private collectors alike with a sometimes frustrating challenge. The rising new numbers and editions of such popular works show no sign of slowing down. In the single year 1988, Grey Castle Press in Sharon, Connecticut, published seven "Nancy Drew Files" editions, from Buried Secrets to White Water Terror. Reprints of other Nancy Drew books appeared in the "Nancy Drew Hardy Boy Supermystery" and "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories" series. With this whirl of activity, special collections librarians and curators depended increasingly on the community of series book collectors and dealers, professional journals, and societies devoted to the work of a single series author for information needed for the acquisition and development of library collections involving this genre.
