Doing the Work of Reference: Practical Tips for Excelling as a Reference Librarian Contributor(s): Katz, Linda S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789013231 ISBN-13: 9780789013231 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Doing the Work of Reference offers practical advice and sound suggestions for the full spectrum of your responsibilities. It begins with orienting yourself to a new job and continues with working with student assistants, offering reference services to remote users, and keeping up your professional development. In addition, you will find strategies for dealing with technological change, getting along with other staff members, keeping students' attention in library instruction courses, and much more! |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General |
Dewey: 025.527 |
LCCN: 2001039146 |
Series: Reference Librarian |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.2" W x 8.44" (1.33 lbs) 398 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 for the full spectrum of your responsibilities. Though many aspects of a reference librarian's work are changing with astonishing speed, the classic principles in this volume will never go out of date. This comprehensive volume begins with hints for orienting yourself to a new job and concludes with ideas for serving the profession. On the way, Doing the Work of Reference covers such diverse topics as working with student assistants, offering reference services to remote users, and keeping up your professional development. In addition, you will find strategies for dealing with technological change--not high-tech information that will become obsolete before the ink is dry, but ways of approaching the process of change that will work today, next week, and ten years from now.Doing the Work of Reference will help you increase your competence in:
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