Doing the work of reference practical tips for excelling as a reference librarian

• Other Authors: Hales-Mabry, Celia
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Haworth Press 2001
• Subjects: Reference services (Libraries) > Reference services > United States; Academic libraries > Reference services > United States
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 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a reference librarian's work are changing with astonishing speed, the classic principles in this volume will never go out of date.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.