Author : Celia Ross
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838919421
This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.
Author : Katherine M. Shelfer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780789003591
Contains nine contributions which range from Internet business research, ESL students, and underprivileged, nontraditional students to networking with community business sources and the Internet's impact on government documents.
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136377956
The most proactive source for business reference librarian information on the market, Business Reference Services and Sources: How End Users and Librarians Work Together shows you that the librarian-customer relationship is as synergistic as ever. It gives you timely facts about how librarians and users work together and how those partnerships are built. In it, you’ll encounter group projects done by faculty, students, external users, and non-librarian supervisors and discover an enlightening spirit of collaboration lacking in most research literature today. Further establishing the marketability of contemporary research librarians, Business Reference Service and Sources goes to the front lines of business reference service, solidifying and updating the librarian-user partnership. You’ll see how research librarians can reach users at the crux of their needs. Overall, individual chapters address the needs of such people as students, business school officials, and corporations. Specifically, you’ll read about these areas: Internet business research and ESL students corporate home pages as supplements to traditional business resources networking with community business sources synergy in the information specialist-customer partnership avoiding information overload in bibliographic instruction the Internet’s impact on government documents assessing the validity of electronic journals underprivileged, nontraditional students and bibliographic instruction Today, in our climate of negative ad campaigns directed at libraries and librarians in general, business reference librarians face many challenges, academic as well as professional. But if you’re one of the vocal, proactive supporters of productive librarian-customer partnerships, this book will help you “grow feet” and move out from behind the restrictive comfort of your desk into the world’s classrooms and manufacturing teams. Certainly, Business References and Sources will convince you that collaborative projects between contemporary reference librarians and end-users are alive and well.
Author : Kay Ann Cassell
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1555708595
Search skills of today bear little resemblance to searches through print publications. Reference service has become much more complex than in the past, and is in a constant state of flux. Learning the skill sets of a worthy reference librarian can be challenging, unending, rewarding, and-- yes, fun.
Author : Jo Bell Whitlatch
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838907870
With this handy new guidebook, reference luminary Jo Bell Whitlatch outlines practical methods for evaluating and delivering excellent reference service to the technology-savvy library user of today.
Author : Meghan Harper
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780838916421
Author : Kristin Mallegg
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business planning
ISBN : 9781410311115
"Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : William A. Katz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780789011800
This comprehensive volume recounts the ways reference librarians have adapted traditional services to deal with the changes in both information technologies and library patrons. New Technologies and Reference Services shows how to provide needed services using videoconferencing, interactive classrooms, drop-in seminars, and required courses. It also discusses the other implications of new technologies, including developing trends in publishing, copyright issues, collection strategies, and decentralizing library reference services.
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317956818
Offer your patrons the cutting-edge reference services they demand!In the past, a reference librarian needed to develop a command of a few reference works, master the skills of the reference interview, and interface with library users in person or via telephone. Today's reference librarian is faced with much, much more. New Technologies and Reference Services suggests ways you can tame the information explosion and take advantage of new technologies.This comprehensive volume recounts the ways reference librarians have adapted traditional services to deal with the changes in both information technologies and library patrons. New Technologies and Reference Services offers tested techniques for fostering information literacy in patrons daunted by the high-tech edge of the new library. Even computer-savvy younger students may need help learning specialized searching skills. This practical volume suggests several innovative ways to teach those skills using interactive classrooms, drop-in seminars, and required courses.New Technologies and Reference Services discusses the other implications of new technologies, including: developing trends in publishing, including value-added services and the death of the printed encyclopedia the effects of CD-ROM, electronic publishing, and the Internet on copyright issues videoconferencing at the reference desk collection strategies and budgets in an era of multiple formats decentralizing library reference services information apartheid, the growing gap between the information haves and have-notsThis helpful volume gives practical, tested advice and ideas on the broader issues of information technology. With plentiful Web addresses, New Technologies and Reference Services presents new ideas sure to make your job easier.
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317789687
Get the most out of your reference information systems and technology! Reference Services and Media meets the information challenges that overwhelm and assist us today with computerization, electronics, and telecommunications changes in the reference services of our libraries. As a professional in the library science field, you will discover innovative theories and researched solutions on many technology problems and challenges such as formatting and compatibility, training of reference professionals and library users, costs, and information have and have nots. With the year 2000 and beyond upon us, emerging technologies afford tremendous opportunities for reference librarians and for improved and enhanced public access to information. In Reference Services and Media you will learn about planning for staffing, troubleshooting fund-raising, and budget developing to support the use of information technologies. You will also examine the impact new media has on academic libraries, specifically video and movie clips that are transferred over intranets and internets and their opportunities and legal implications. In Reference Services and Media you will also explore: desktop conferencing and web access for reference services versus personalized contact desktop conferencing with personal computers in remote areas for reference service assistance positive and negative aspects of using each technology in reference use instruction creative methods for procuring funding for an electronic information literary instruction classroom providing a digital library for a state library network raising confidence levels of public service librarians in using electronic resources to answer reference questions Reference Services and Media includes case studies, tables, and an annotated bibliography that serves as a librarian's media reference toolkit, making it essential for effective media reference work. An excellent source for the reference librarian, Reference Services and Media will assist you in adopting and incorporating new information technologies for the present and future.
