... 2010 --> Health Reference libraries Health and medicine There are, of course, an enormous number of published guides answering general medical questions. From the dawn of human history, practically the earliest written records are either interpretations of dreams or guides...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Reference services Reference libraries Library materials The Walford family of guides to reference material have been going since the 1950s and are landmarks, icons, and part of the furniture of the reference world. What is now called...

... Limited 2009 --> Reference libraries Digital libraries Virtual work “In the last decade, virtual reference has grown from a topic of largely theoretical conversation to a very real and increasingly basic library service” write R. David Lankes and Philip Nest in their Preface...

... (£29.56 for CILIP members) paperback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Reference libraries Reader services Diane K. Kovacs is an online trainer and Internet workshop leader for the American Library Association. It was during an online chat in one of her teaching sessions...

... Publishing Limited 2007 --> Reference libraries Collections of articles such as those in New Directions in Reference can be a challenge to review. What is the articles’ collective contributions to the global library community? The book's mixture of topics ranging from general...

... Limited 2007 --> Reference libraries Reader services The value of a professional librarian or information specialist has never been more called into question as the internet and broad‐spectrum search engines as exemplified by Google brings a wealth of resources to everyone's desktop...

... --> Reference libraries Internet This is yet another volume in the Haworth Press series of co‐publications with journals – in this case, The Reference Collection. The besetting sin of the series is its relentless Americanism, with huge quantities of slang and dialect which render it almost...

..., are frequently confronted with “imposed queries” (questions about assignments given by someone else), yet public library examples are the focus of this section. This is a minor criticism, however. © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Reference libraries interviews Catherine   Sheldrick Ross...

...Sarah Nesbeitt Bob   Duckett , Peter   Walker and Christinea   Donnelly . Know It All, Find It Fast: an A‐Z source guide for the enquiry desk . London : Facet Publishing   2002 . xvii+340 pp. , ISBN: 1 85604 434 3   £24.95 Reference libraries...

... Reference libraries User studies Bibliographic standards Library services Library users Many reasons suggested by librarians for embarking on a collection evaluation include to improve collection development policies, review performances of selectors, identify the strengths and weaknesses...

...) softback Also published as The Reference Librarian Vol. 34 No. 72 and Vol. 35 No. 73 Librarians Reference libraries As one who contemplates epistemological conundrums between reference enquiries, I could not fail to notice the word order of this book title: “Doing the Work...

...); £17.20 ($24.95) paperback Reference libraries Information services It is so nice to see a book that claims to offer solutions in its title! Unstated though, even in the subtitle, is that the background to this collection of 12 articles, is law librarianship. In common with many...

... the status of the reference staff, organization of the collection, up‐to‐dateness, and categories of user. The study shows that inadequate funds are a major problem, while lack of professional staff at the reference library is also experienced. As a result the reference collection is becoming obsolete...

... libraries Information retrieval Information technology Reference libraries USA User studies This is an exceptionally useful and topical collection of papers, which includes a number of articles on access to and the use of electronic information resources. The text has been published simultaneously...

... Waverley Novels”, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, Vol. IV, 1960. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Literature Reference libraries Publication of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh University Press, 25 volumes in 30, 1993‐) offering “a clean...

...‐engineering begins with the recognition that information technology organizations are in the business of providing services. Carole Barone (1988) advises us: © MCB UP Limited 1997 Information Librarians Reference libraries Roles Technology There is the assertion that economic forces...

... by reference librarians in classifying information seekers based on their needs through a process of diagnosis. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Academic libraries Information services Library users Nigeria Reference libraries Students Reference questions can be grouped into two categories...

... two university libraries and eight special libraries, four of which specialize in agriculture. © MCB UP Limited 1996 CD‐ROM Ghana Reference libraries Computer technology has had an impact on almost all aspects of library and information work. In particular, it has made...

...Bob Duckett The role of the public reference library today is unclear. As a result there is a loss of purpose, staff are confused and collections are being weakened or broken up. Examines the history of the large urban reference libraries and the aims and motivations of their protagonists and early...

... for reference library staff at Bradford. Library Review 38,5 Reference Work, and General Staff Selection Knowledge by 14 Bob Duckett Bradford Central Library, Bradford I have long been perplexed over the problem of how to train reference library staff. Having worked in specialist reference libraries and subject...