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

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

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About the Book

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.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Preface      I. GENERAL CONCEPTS      1. Ideology and the Deprofessionalization of the Reference Function      2. Reading and Reference Work      II. ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS      3. The Importance of Being Current      4. Developing a “Reader’s Mind”      5. You Can Lead Librarians to Knowledge, But You Can’t Make Them Think      III. PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE STAFF      6. Being a Jack-of-All-Trades      IV. PROFESSORS AND ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS      7. Meeting the Expectations of Professors      8. Reading as a Species of Intellectual Capital      APPENDICES A. Methodological Notes and Text of Survey Questions Sent to Academic Reference Librarians      B. Methodological Notes and Text of Survey Questions Sent to Public Library Reference Staff Members      C. Methodological Notes and Text of Survey Questions Sent to Professors in the Humanities and Social Sciences      D. Statistical Analyses of Selected Variables from the Survey Sent to Academic Reference Librarians      Notes      Bibliography      Index     


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786416523
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 269
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 526 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786416521
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 269
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits
  • Width: 178 mm


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