Opportunities for Reference Services: The Bright Side of Reference Services in the 1990's

ISBN-13: 9780367374372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Katz, Bill

Opis

This book, first published in 1991, explores the changing roles of reference services and offers advice and practical ideas to guide librarians through the increasingly tangled maze of duties being thrust upon the reference staff.

Spis treści

1. Prologue: Ode to the Reference Librarian Norman D. Stevens  Part 1. Reference Librarians at Work  2. Joy Is Bustin' Out All Over James Rettig  3. The Fragile Allure of Reference Paul Frantz  4. Reference Collegiality: One Library's Experience Polly Frank, Lee-Allison Levene and Kathy Piehl  5. Technology and Service: Reference Librarians Have a Place in the '90s Mabel W. Shaw  6. A Look Back at Twenty-Five Years Behind the Desk Constance A. Fairchild  7. Librarians and Book Publication: Overcoming Barriers Mary M. Nofsinger and Eileen E. Brady  Part 2. Tools of the Profession  8. Ranking the Reference Books: Methodologies for Identifying ‘Key’ Reference Sources Richard L. Hopkins  9. Making the Connection: The Telephone as a Creative and Potent - but Underutilized - Instrument for Reference Service Ken Kister  10. The Evolution of Early Visions: An Historical Perspective on Today's Information Technology James Rice  11. The Library of Congress Remote Online Library User Pilot Project: The California State Library Experience Kathleen Low  12. HPER for Help: Selection and Reference Tools for a New Field Elaine Fox Clever and David P. Dillard  13. Legal Research Works for Non-Law Students Bill Bailey  14. Scholarly Communication, Peer Review, and Reference Librarian Ethics: A Case Study of the Lexicon of the Middle Ages Gordon Moran  Part 3. The Public Served  15. The International Ideology of Library and Information Science: The Past Three Decades Stephen Karetzky  16. Strengthening the Foundation for Information Literacy in an Academic Library Laura A. Sullivan and Nancy F. Campbell  17. Community Cooperation in Reference Service via a Librarians' Liaison Committee Margaret Hendley  18. Volunteers and Reference Services With a Special Collection Anne F. Roberts  Part 4. Points of Debate  19. Male Reference Librarians and the Gender Factor Ronald Beaudrie and Robert Grunfeld