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Rethinking Reference: The Reference Librarian's Practical Guide for Surviving Constant Change (How-to-do-it manuals for librarians) by Elizabeth Thomsen is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rethinking Reference: The Reference Librarian's Practical Guide for Surviving Constant Change (How-to-do-it manuals for librarians) about?
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.
Who reads Rethinking Reference: The Reference Librarian's Practical Guide for Surviving Constant Change (How-to-do-it manuals for librarians)?
It is typically read by readers who need quick, reliable lookup and repeat reference.
Common subject areas: reference, language, dictionaries and manuals.
- Author
- Elizabeth Thomsen
- Publisher
- Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 100 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 ($45). Tel: 212-925-8650; Fax: 800-584-2414 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.neal-schuman.com
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555703646
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Computer Science, Reference
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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