Search skills of today bear little resemblance to searches through print publications.
William A. Katz. haustive works . Although now dated , References Sources for Small and Medium Sized Libraries ( 4th ed . Chicago : American Library Associa- tion , 1984 ) affords a useful list of some 1800 basic titles . The standard ...
Brown bag presentations to graduate student cohorts or faculty. Typically every university department has a new cohort in the fall. A short brown bag presentation on data services and sources is a great way to begin establishing ...
Christine Pawley, Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America (Amherst: ... Anne Lundin, “Anne Carroll Moore: 'I Have Spun out a Long Thread,'” in Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the ...
This practical guide teaches failsafe methods for identifying important materials by matching specific types of questions to the best available sources, regardless of format.
Identifying the resources in major subject areas and genres, this title it shows students how to approach the reference query by matching specific types of questions to the most appropriate...
Emphasizing the enormous changes wrought by technology, this essential text offers a solid, broadly based view of library public service and its functions. Chapters are arranged by type of service-reference...
"Reference Services and Reference Processes," Volume II of Introduction to Reference Work, introduces the sophisticated and imaginative aspects of the complete reference process. It discusses the ongoing and important changes...
Updated to reflect the latest trends and the newest sources commonly used for reference work, this new edition includes more detailed discussion of a wider range of reference-related services, including interlibrary loan, document delivery, ...
In Introduction to Reference and Information Services in Today's School Library, one of America's premier school library educators covers the A-Z of both reference and information services for today's library.