The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
Adding Value in the Digital World
Published on 31. January 2007
160 pages
978-1-78063-100-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the questions: how academic libraries provide value-added reference and information services in the digital age. It provides best practices from a global perspective. The book starts by looking at the information needs and info-seeking behaviours of university students and faculty. Then it examines the use cycle: consumer, instruction, and producer. It examines the resource cycle: collection development, instructor, maintenance. What are the essential elements of reference: orientation, instruction, collaborative planning, products?
- Focuses on information needs and information-seeking behaviours of academic library stakeholders (faculty, students, community)
- Focuses on technologies: impact on reference and information services (selection, access, interaction, instruction, administration), focusing on the human issues
- Emphasizes collaborative aspects of reference/info services (with faculty for program/course instruction, with computer services for digital integration, with other libraries for resource
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Language
English
Place of publication
Witney
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78063-100-4 (9781780631004)
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Lesley Farmer
The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
Adding Value in the Digital World
Book
01/2007
Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
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Lesley Farmer
The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
Adding Value in the Digital World
Book
01/2007
Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
€72.62
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Content
Technology impact on information needs and behaviours of the academic community; Technology impact on reference and information services staffing; Technology impact on reference resources; Technology impact on packaging reference and information; Technology impact on physical access to reference and information services; Technology impact on intellectual access for reference and information services; Technology impact on evaluating reference and information services.
