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The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
Adding Value in the Digital World
- 160 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
Adding Value in the Digital World
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding value in the digital world
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- About the contributors
- 1 Technology impact on information needs and behaviours of the academic community
- 2 Technology impact on reference and information services staffing
- 3 Technology impact on reference resources
- 4 Technology impact on packaging reference and information
- 5 Technology impact on physical access to reference and information services
- 6 Technology impact on intellectual access for reference and information services
- 7 Technology impact on evaluating reference and information services
- Appendix: New database form
- Bibliography
- Index