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

• Other Authors: Hales-Mabry, Celia
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: Haworth Routledge ©2001; 2013
• Subjects: Reference services (Libraries); Academic libraries > Reference services
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• Item Description: Co-published simultaneously as The reference librarian, nos. 72 and 73, 2001
• Physical Description: 387 pages 22 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780789013231

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.