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Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits - Couverture souple

Dilevko, Juris; Gottlieb, Lisa

 
9780786416523: Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786416521 ISBN 13 : 9780786416523
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competency rather than knowledge has become the order of the day. In many respects, reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search. Calling for a re-intellectualization of reference librarianship, this book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service--reading.

The authors surveyed both academic reference librarians and public library reference personnel in the United States and Canada about their reading habits. From the 950 responses, the authors present findings about the extent to which librarians read newspapers, periodicals, fiction and nonfiction, and recount and analyze stories about how reading has made them better librarians. The authors also report that North American professors in the humanities and social sciences believe that the best reference librarians are those who have wide-ranging, subject-based knowledge as opposed to the type of process-based, functional knowledge that is increasingly dominating the curricula of many Library and Information Science programs.

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À propos de l'auteur

Juris Dilevko is a retired associate professor from the University of Toronto. In addition to his books about librarianship, his writings have appeared in American Studies, Journal of Information Ethics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library Quarterly, and Reference & User Services Quarterly, among other publications.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786416521
ISBN 13 
9780786416523
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
269
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Personne responsable
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