Rethinking Reference: The Reference Librarian's Practical Guide for Surviving Constant Change

by Elizabeth Thomsen

Thomsen offers practical help on pressing issues. Formats, space requirements, users, and even your role as a reference librarian are all changing. Fast. Thomsen helps you keep up with lively, informative discussions your relationships with paraprofessional staff and techies, developing communication skills for effective reference interviews and multilingual patron inquiries, integrating new resources in your search routines, virtual reference skills, distance education, librarians as trainers and pathfinders, the logistics of the reference space (desk height, roving reference, technical assistance), and much more.

291 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1999

Reviews

[Velvetink]

The way my local library is throwing out books, there won't be need for librarians soon. I wonder why I am studying to be one. On the plus side I scored this and 7 other books for $3.