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Managing reference today : new models and best practices / Kay Ann Cassell.

By: Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]Description: xi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810892217
  • 0810892219
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Z711 .C354 2017
Contents:
Understanding reference services and collections today -- Moving toward new models of reference services -- Identifying new ways of providing reference services and communicating with users -- Choosing newer and better staffing models for ways of utilizing staff -- Providing outreach -- Bringing necessary change to the education and training of reference librarians -- Keeping up with change through more effective assessment -- Accepting how reference resources necessarily shape reference services -- Preparing to better serve our patrons today and tomorrow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding reference services and collections today -- Moving toward new models of reference services -- Identifying new ways of providing reference services and communicating with users -- Choosing newer and better staffing models for ways of utilizing staff -- Providing outreach -- Bringing necessary change to the education and training of reference librarians -- Keeping up with change through more effective assessment -- Accepting how reference resources necessarily shape reference services -- Preparing to better serve our patrons today and tomorrow.

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