Information Brokers and Reference Services

ISBN-13: 9780367373566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 326 str.

Robin Kinder; Bill Katz

Opis

The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published in 1988. Librarians discuss the impact of brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of library services by brokers, and whether libraries should provide competing fee-based services.

Spis treści

1. Agreeing to Disagree: The Relations Between Librarians and Brokers Robin Kinder  Part 1. Fee-Based Services: Beginning of an Era  2. The Age of the Information Broker: An Introduction Brenda C. Rosen  3. Computer Search Services and Information Brokering in Academic Libraries Kathleen J. Voigt  4. Issues Facing Private Academic Libraries Considering Fee-Based Programs Loretta Caren and Arleen Somerville  Part 2. Attitudes: Three Surveys and an Opinion  5. The Attitudes of Academic Reference Librarians Towards Information Brokers Elizabeth Bramm Dunn  6. The Effect of Information Brokers on Reference Services: Reference Librarians Express Their Opinions Robert M. Ballard  7. Working Together: The Librarian and the Broker Patricia Brauch  8. Librarian and Information Broker: The Challenge of Cooperation Christine Y. Maxwell and Ellen C. Reinheimer  Part 3. Information Systems and Products: Impact on Reference Services  9. The Reference Collection Development Decision: Will New Information Technologies Influence Libraries' Collecting Patterns? John M. Haar  10. Virtual Information Systems: Unlimited Resources for Information Retrieval Hilary D. Burton  11. The MINITEX Reference Service: A Publicly Funded Information Broker M.J. Dustin  12. ExeLS: Executive Library Services Stephen Marvin  Part 4. Brokers and Consultants: The New Entrepreneurs  13. The Entrepreneurial Librarian Susan E. Feldman  14. Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Successful Information Broker? Lynda Nash Leach  15. To Be or Not To Be an Information Broker Alice Sizer Warner  16. Information Brokering: Facts and Fantasy Edith F. Anderson  17. Boss Broker: The Information Entrepreneur as Employer Barbara Whyte Felicetti  18. Library Consulting: Challenge, Autonomy, and Risk Muriel Regan  19. Consultants for Interlibrary Loan Virginia Boucher  Part 5. Current Trends in Reference Services  20. The Importance of the Verb in the Reference Question Norman D. Stevens  21. ‘I Heard You Say…’ Peer Coaching for More Effective Reference Service Ralph Gers and Lillie J. Seward  22. A Funaholic in the Reference Room Thomas P. Slavens  23. Reference Queries, Experience, and Secondary Reference Books Zheng Fan, with Nancy Slater  24. Instruction for Genealogists in the Public Library Craig R. Amason  25. Abstracting for Reference Librarians Elliot S. Palais  26. Searching of East Slavic Materials in Library Catalogues Michael Markiw

O autorze

Robin Kinder, Bill Katz