Business Reference Services and Sources: How End Users and Librarians Work Together (The Reference Librarian , Vol 27, No 58) [Hardcover]

Linda S Katz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0789003597 | ISBN-13: 978-0789003591

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.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

As ever more information sources become available, the value and role of libraries may be called more into question. This collection, originally an issue of the Reference Librarian, focuses on end users and how they and librarians can and do work together in the context of business reference. Three papers deal with the Internet: how it can be used to teach basic business research in the U.S. to those whose first language is not English; providing access to relevant resources on it for school business officials; and using company Web sites for supplementary information. Later essays cover aspects of networking between libraries and business information seekers, including partnerships with local businesses to provide information resources the businesses need; working relationships with business-school faculty members, and bibliographic instruction programs that will not overwhelm end users. Edward Swanson

Product Details

• Hardcover: 132 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (November 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789003597
• ISBN-13: 978-0789003591
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,972,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)