Information Brokers and Reference Services (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kinder, Robin; Katz, Bill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published in 1988. Librarians discuss the impact of brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of library services by brokers, and whether libraries should provide competing fee-based services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000757699
• Artikelnr.: 58348337

Autorenporträt

Robin Kinder, Bill Katz

Inhaltsangabe

1. Agreeing to Disagree: The Relations Between Librarians and Brokers
Robin Kinder Part 1. Fee-Based Services: Beginning of an Era 2. The Age of
the Information Broker: An Introduction Brenda C. Rosen 3. Computer Search
Services and Information Brokering in Academic Libraries Kathleen J. Voigt
4. Issues Facing Private Academic Libraries Considering Fee-Based Programs
Loretta Caren and Arleen Somerville Part 2. Attitudes: Three Surveys and an
Opinion 5. The Attitudes of Academic Reference Librarians Towards
Information Brokers Elizabeth Bramm Dunn 6. The Effect of Information
Brokers on Reference Services: Reference Librarians Express Their Opinions
Robert M. Ballard 7. Working Together: The Librarian and the Broker
Patricia Brauch 8. Librarian and Information Broker: The Challenge of
Cooperation Christine Y. Maxwell and Ellen C. Reinheimer Part 3.
Information Systems and Products: Impact on Reference Services 9. The
Reference Collection Development Decision: Will New Information
Technologies Influence Libraries' Collecting Patterns? John M. Haar 10.
Virtual Information Systems: Unlimited Resources for Information Retrieval
Hilary D. Burton 11. The MINITEX Reference Service: A Publicly Funded
Information Broker M.J. Dustin 12. ExeLS: Executive Library Services
Stephen Marvin Part 4. Brokers and Consultants: The New Entrepreneurs 13.
The Entrepreneurial Librarian Susan E. Feldman 14. Do You Have What It
Takes To Be a Successful Information Broker? Lynda Nash Leach 15. To Be or
Not To Be an Information Broker Alice Sizer Warner 16. Information
Brokering: Facts and Fantasy Edith F. Anderson 17. Boss Broker: The
Information Entrepreneur as Employer Barbara Whyte Felicetti 18. Library
Consulting: Challenge, Autonomy, and Risk Muriel Regan 19. Consultants for
Interlibrary Loan Virginia Boucher Part 5. Current Trends in Reference
Services 20. The Importance of the Verb in the Reference Question Norman D.
Stevens 21. 'I Heard You Say...' Peer Coaching for More Effective Reference
Service Ralph Gers and Lillie J. Seward 22. A Funaholic in the Reference
Room Thomas P. Slavens 23. Reference Queries, Experience, and Secondary
Reference Books Zheng Fan, with Nancy Slater 24. Instruction for
Genealogists in the Public Library Craig R. Amason 25. Abstracting for
Reference Librarians Elliot S. Palais 26. Searching of East Slavic
Materials in Library Catalogues Michael Markiw