Making Sense of Business Reference

Making Sense of Business Reference

Author: Celia Ross

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0838919421

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This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.


Business Reference Services and Sources

Business Reference Services and Sources

Author: Katherine M. Shelfer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780789003591

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Contains nine contributions which range from Internet business research, ESL students, and underprivileged, nontraditional students to networking with community business sources and the Internet's impact on government documents.


Business Reference Services and Sources

Business Reference Services and Sources

Author: Linda S Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1136377956

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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 is as synergistic as ever. It gives you timely facts about how librarians and users work together and how those partnerships are built. In it, you’ll encounter group projects done by faculty, students, external users, and non-librarian supervisors and discover an enlightening spirit of collaboration lacking in most research literature today. Further establishing the marketability of contemporary research librarians, Business Reference Service and Sources goes to the front lines of business reference service, solidifying and updating the librarian-user partnership. You’ll see how research librarians can reach users at the crux of their needs. Overall, individual chapters address the needs of such people as students, business school officials, and corporations. Specifically, you’ll read about these areas: Internet business research and ESL students corporate home pages as supplements to traditional business resources networking with community business sources synergy in the information specialist-customer partnership avoiding information overload in bibliographic instruction the Internet’s impact on government documents assessing the validity of electronic journals underprivileged, nontraditional students and bibliographic instruction Today, in our climate of negative ad campaigns directed at libraries and librarians in general, business reference librarians face many challenges, academic as well as professional. But if you’re one of the vocal, proactive supporters of productive librarian-customer partnerships, this book will help you “grow feet” and move out from behind the restrictive comfort of your desk into the world’s classrooms and manufacturing teams. Certainly, Business References and Sources will convince you that collaborative projects between contemporary reference librarians and end-users are alive and well.


Reference and Information Services

Reference and Information Services

Author: Kay Ann Cassell

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1555708595

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Search skills of today bear little resemblance to searches through print publications. Reference service has become much more complex than in the past, and is in a constant state of flux. Learning the skill sets of a worthy reference librarian can be challenging, unending, rewarding, and-- yes, fun.


Evaluating Reference Services

Evaluating Reference Services

Author: Jo Bell Whitlatch

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780838907870

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With this handy new guidebook, reference luminary Jo Bell Whitlatch outlines practical methods for evaluating and delivering excellent reference service to the technology-savvy library user of today.


New Technologies and Reference Services

New Technologies and Reference Services

Author: William A. Katz

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780789011800

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This comprehensive volume recounts the ways reference librarians have adapted traditional services to deal with the changes in both information technologies and library patrons. New Technologies and Reference Services shows how to provide needed services using videoconferencing, interactive classrooms, drop-in seminars, and required courses. It also discusses the other implications of new technologies, including developing trends in publishing, copyright issues, collection strategies, and decentralizing library reference services.


New Technologies and Reference Services

New Technologies and Reference Services

Author: Linda S Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1317956818

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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 interview, and interface with library users in person or via telephone. Today's reference librarian is faced with much, much more. New Technologies and Reference Services suggests ways you can tame the information explosion and take advantage of new technologies.This comprehensive volume recounts the ways reference librarians have adapted traditional services to deal with the changes in both information technologies and library patrons. New Technologies and Reference Services offers tested techniques for fostering information literacy in patrons daunted by the high-tech edge of the new library. Even computer-savvy younger students may need help learning specialized searching skills. This practical volume suggests several innovative ways to teach those skills using interactive classrooms, drop-in seminars, and required courses.New Technologies and Reference Services discusses the other implications of new technologies, including: developing trends in publishing, including value-added services and the death of the printed encyclopedia the effects of CD-ROM, electronic publishing, and the Internet on copyright issues videoconferencing at the reference desk collection strategies and budgets in an era of multiple formats decentralizing library reference services information apartheid, the growing gap between the information haves and have-notsThis helpful volume gives practical, tested advice and ideas on the broader issues of information technology. With plentiful Web addresses, New Technologies and Reference Services presents new ideas sure to make your job easier.


Reference Services and Media

Reference Services and Media

Author: Linda S Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1317789687

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Get the most out of your reference information systems and technology! Reference Services and Media meets the information challenges that overwhelm and assist us today with computerization, electronics, and telecommunications changes in the reference services of our libraries. As a professional in the library science field, you will discover innovative theories and researched solutions on many technology problems and challenges such as formatting and compatibility, training of reference professionals and library users, costs, and information have and have nots. With the year 2000 and beyond upon us, emerging technologies afford tremendous opportunities for reference librarians and for improved and enhanced public access to information. In Reference Services and Media you will learn about planning for staffing, troubleshooting fund-raising, and budget developing to support the use of information technologies. You will also examine the impact new media has on academic libraries, specifically video and movie clips that are transferred over intranets and internets and their opportunities and legal implications. In Reference Services and Media you will also explore: desktop conferencing and web access for reference services versus personalized contact desktop conferencing with personal computers in remote areas for reference service assistance positive and negative aspects of using each technology in reference use instruction creative methods for procuring funding for an electronic information literary instruction classroom providing a digital library for a state library network raising confidence levels of public service librarians in using electronic resources to answer reference questions Reference Services and Media includes case studies, tables, and an annotated bibliography that serves as a librarian's media reference toolkit, making it essential for effective media reference work. An excellent source for the reference librarian, Reference Services and Media will assist you in adopting and incorporating new information technologies for the present and future.


Social Science Reference Services

Social Science Reference Services

Author: Pam M. Baxter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781560247180

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This new book addresses reference services across the spectrum of the social sciences. Chapters embrace a multidisciplinary approach to providing both materials and services to users and stress the variety of information formats available through a bewildering array of delivery mechanisms from an astounding number of sources. Among the topics address are challenges of the automated environment, dissertation development, improving the handing of business reference queries, user education/bibliographic instruction, data files for social research, strategies for locating information on environmental public policy; reference literature on the European Community, and using economic statistics from the federal government.