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Linda S Katz
Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of the library and meet the information needs of underserved or…
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Stay up-to-date with the growing amount of reference resources available online
How important is the World Wide Web to information retrieval and communication? Important enough that information professionals have seen…
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A monograph published simultaneously as the Acquisitions Librarian, Vol. 16, Nos. 31/32. Provides the tools you need to keep your library collection current. Takes a step-by-step walk through the process…
The Image and Role of the Librarian addresses all aspects of professional identity for librarians, including professional roles, cultural images, popular perceptions and future trends. The book examines historical representations…
In this provocative book, librarianship experts discuss the major ethical and legal impications that reference librarians must take into consideration when handling sensitive inquiries and questions dealing with confidential material.
Library authorities address the increasing significance of reference services and the increasing need for evaluation of those services to further ensure professionalism and efficiency.
Provides librarians with the knowledge and skills they need to manage an effective reference service, and also provides an inside look at Oregon State University’s Valley Library’s new management model.
Coming of Age in Reference Services: A Case History of the Washington State University Libraries focuses on the triumphs, trials, ideas, and difficulties of the Holland Library and how these…
Get informed answers to your questions and concerns about integrating the materials in your library’s collection
Library collections have always included materials in many formatshandling a mix of material types…
Here is unique volume offering practical advice on weeding and maintaining reference collections. It covers different types of librariesacademic, corporate, publicand problems. Librarians describe in detail methods and criteria used…
Overmeier (library and information studies, U. of Oklahoma, Norman) and other library professionals discuss the acquisition of out-of-print and special collections materials. A sampling of topics includes collecting underground poetry…
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Practitioners and instructors explain to reference librarians in general and to electronic services librarians in particular how the Internet has changed reference service, both in large ways and in details…
Fenner (library acquisition department, University of North Carolina-Greensboro) offers a practical guide to managing library materials in digital formats. Librarians share their expertise in the acquisition and management of digital…
Digital versus Non-Digital Reference chronicles the experiences and interactions of librarians with digital reference, including case studies, how-to guides, and philosophical essays.
Unlike most references on Africa that concentrate on collection development, this work focuses on the study of Africa. LaFond (associate librarian, State University of New York-Albany) and Walsh (African Studies…
This useful book helps reference librarians understand the information seeking needs and behaviors of the diverse groups of people in the communities they serve. With the increasing diversity of the…
Provides a series of approaches to meeting the information needs of underserved populations. The last decade has seen unprecedented change in the demand for services by patrons not visible in…
Become more versatile, competent, and resourceful with these practical suggestions!Becoming a first-class reference librarian demands proficiency in a wide range of skills. Doing the Work of Reference offers sound advice…
A problem patron is not one with difficult requests or obscure interests, but one who displays behavior that is deemed destructive, criminal, bothersome, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate. Librarians look at…
Offers profiles, methods, and processes for acquisitions in specialized subject areas, such as local and regional poetry, oceanography, educational information in electronic formats, popular fiction, regional and ethnic materials, and…
Addresses the need for reference librarians to work together to keep the system running smoothly. Explores the various means of developing social and professionalism, collaborating on projects, and combining forces…
Discover innovative outreach services you can implement for your library!
Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of…
Animals are the Issue is a guide to books, journals, and Websites on historic and modern animal treatment. Expert librarians and scholars provide helpful resources showing what ideals and practical…
Explore a compilation of reference service works by Charles A. Bunge, a leader in the field!This informative and delightful book highlights the contributions of Charles A. Bunge to the literature…
Offer your patrons the cutting-edge reference services they demand!In the past, a reference librarian needed to develop a command of a few reference works, master the skills of the reference…
This collection reflects the experiences of librarians, teaching faculty and library directors, whose perspectives range from cynicism to cautious optimism and idealism when it comes to working with teaching faculty…
The most proactive source for business reference librarian information on the market, Business Reference Services and Sources: How End Users and Librarians Work Together shows you that the librarian-customer relationship…
This important book explores the many questions challenging librarians who work with gifts and exchanges as part of their daily responsibilities.
This provocative new book will help you design and implement the most effective library user education possible–one that builds on basic library use skills through a progressively sophisticated program that…
This vital book reaffirms librarians'enthusiasm for books and readers in the midst of the evolution of libraries-from reading centers to information centers where librarians are now Web masters, information scientists…
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Get the latest information on new developments in copyright law!This timely volume sheds light on the important legal issues that influence the scholarly publishing world. The often-confusing field of publishing…
This accessible text contains strategies to help librarians expand their popular culture collections in an organised manner. Many publications explain why libraries should collect popular culture materials; this one explains…
Linda S Katz,William A Katz
This book investigates a wide variety of situations and models which fall under the umbrella of information and referral. It examines traditional views in public libraries and library systems as…
Linda S Katz,Bill Katz
Extensive data on the theoretical and practical aspects of electronic reference services!
Digital Reference Services provides an overview of electronic reference services and software, and explores the opportunities that real-time…
Bill Katz
Librarians and professors of library and information sciences present 16 contributions addressing the increasingly technological bent of libraries and the continued vitality and importance of the paper books and the…
Linda S Katz,Irene Owens
With cutting-edge research studies as well as theoretical chapters that have not been seen before in the marketing literature for LIS, this text examinees the current and quite limited state…
