This annotated bibliography represents the core literature of the human resource development profession. An introduction describes the process by which the core literature was identified, annotated, and published for dissemination. The approximately 111 documents are categorized by the nine professional areas: training and development, organization development, organization/job design, human resource planning, selection and staffing, personnel research and information systems, compensation/benefits, employee assistance, and union/labor relations. For each document, this information is provided: author(s), date of publication, title, and publication and page numbers or place of publication and publisher. A listing of the human resource development expert raters is appended. An author index is also provided. (YLB)