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The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference
2003
D-Lib Magazine
Chicago and London: American Library Association.
[Janes] Janes, J. (2002). Digital Reference: Reference Librarians' Experiences and Attitudes. ...
Recent research on librarian experiences and attitudes about digital reference (Janes, 2002), statistical and qualitative measuring of reference service [McClure et al., 2002], and the establishment of ...
doi:10.1045/february2003-penka
fatcat:5fcxn7blxjgzfjrdrwbxojtntq
The digital reference research agenda
2004
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
reference, library practice and digital libraries. ...
Background Digital reference is a distinct and growing practice in libraries today. Academic, public and special libraries are rushing to offer human intermediation services over the Internet. ...
He studied librarians' attitudes towards digital reference work and found a significant link between positive attitudes towards digital reference and time spent engaged in answering questions online. ...
doi:10.1002/asi.10374
fatcat:mglcinyeqvgk3gimzuplclwm4q
Reference 2.0 in action: an evaluation of the digital reference services in selected Philippine academic libraries
2012
Library Hi Tech News
What is original/value of paper: This is the first systematic evaluation of the nature and practice of reference 2.0 in Philippine setting that sees a valuable contribution that could boost academic libraries ...
David and her reference librarian, Mr. Fernan Dizon, and the reference team and information assistant of the De La Salle University Library, headed by Director Ms. Ana Maria B. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to express their gratitude to the UP Diliman University Librarian Ms. Salvacion M. Arlante, Ateneo de Manila University Rizal Library Director Ms. Lourdes T. ...
doi:10.1108/07419051211223426
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Do Virtual Reference Librarians Dream of Digital Reference Questions?: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Email and Chat Reference
2004
Australian Academic and Research Libraries
Virtual reference in an Australian academic library was examined using qualitative and quantitative analyses of email and chat transcripts. ...
Email and chat show similar usage rates when hours of availability are taken into account. Chat enquiries tended to have higher proportions of research and reference enquiries. ...
Acknowledgements My thanks to Dr Paul Genoni for supervision and comment on this research and the staff of Murdoch University Library for their support and encouragement. ...
doi:10.1080/00048623.2004.10755262
fatcat:nntwbfcvrrefpcgj3gk5yj3kge
Collaborative Real-time Digital Reference Services in Academic Libraries
2004
Journal of Library and Information Studies
The real-time digital reference service is valued by most academic librarians in United States. ...
To make the collaborative real-time digital reference service viable in academic library service, the libraries need to understand the information seeking behavior of potential users and to train the staff ...
Reference Librarians Experiences and
Attitudes.
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and
Technology, 53:7 (2002): 549-66. ...
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Book Review: Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
2016
Reference and user services quarterly
Abundant literature explores the nexus between academic libraries and digital humanities research and teaching, including major reports by CLIR, Ithaka S+R and OCLC, yet many aspects of the library's role ...
in digital scholarship. ...
(157), frustrations stemming from high expectations (159), and rampant impostor syndrome among librarians that is, in the end, not especially justified, as librarians often have more experience than teaching ...
doi:10.5860/rusq.55n3.244c
fatcat:4rjotnc4wrddjcuip3kxfdxsw4
Digital reference services: a snapshot of the current practices in Scottish libraries
2004
Library Review
Attempts to promote digital reference and digital resources in Scotland Because DRS need digital reference materials to support the online reference interview, it is worth noting some of the projects that ...
Janes (2002) argued that libraries have been providing DRS for a few years and they should move on from experimenting to defining new services. ...
doi:10.1108/00242530410514793
fatcat:dpbkb77t6fatha57agha2wxtaq
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND MEDIATION IN A DIGITAL REFERENCE SERVICE FOCUSED IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
1969
Brazilian Journal of Information Science
This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library ...
The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. ...
The digital reference is a professional, telematic and electronic service". ...
doi:10.36311/1981-1640.2012.v6n2.06.p84
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Sources: Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources
2007
Reference and user services quarterly
Professional Materials proaching the subject matter that, librarian-like, helps organize the information for future use. ...
Saricks' s book helps to mitigate that effect and offers a practical method for bringing together patron and product, something we should all take advantage of in this era of questioning the relevance ...
-Margie Ruppel, Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources. ...
doi:10.5860/rusq.46n3.107
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The World of Charles J. Kappler: A Digital Portrait
2009
Legal Reference Services Quarterly
A digital Web site has been developed to present lesser known aspects of his personal and professional life. ...
Kappler (1868 -1946 is known almost exclusively for his Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties compilation, yet his life and his career were much fuller. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Laura Weakly and Karin Dalziel of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities for their editorial and design expertise in the creation of this electronic resource. ...
doi:10.1080/02703190802701099
fatcat:jrmn5hf7rfamjduhchlempqwue
Improving Digital Publishing of Legal Scholarship
2015
Legal Reference Services Quarterly
With persistence, though, editors, librarians, and support staff can find tools and processes for conversion that work for them. ...
FIGURE 10 10 The reference list from an article in Advance in Bioinformatics. Under "Linked References," the first reference includes a link to the cited article using a DOI. ...
doi:10.1080/0270319x.2015.1038143
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Costing Reference
2006
The Reference librarian
The Assessing Quality in Digital Reference project is a first step toward understanding the cost of digital reference services in libraries. ...
as a percent of the total reference budget, and the cost of reference as a percent of the total library or organizational budget. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Research for this paper was performed as part of the Assessing Quality in Digital Reference Services conducted by the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University and the Information ...
doi:10.1300/j120v46n95_11
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Academic reference librarians
2010
Library Management
Design/Methodology/Approach: Connections between the work of academic reference librarians and the work of public, special, school, law and medical librarians are drawn. ...
Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to consider how academic reference librarians might be guided by non-academic librarians as their roles shift and/or expand in a many different directions ...
access teams, systems librarians teaming with special collections librarians in digitizing treasures. ...
doi:10.1108/01435121011093388
fatcat:2dyu7pwo6rdavfphn333cohxqm
Reference Transaction Handoffs
2008
Reference and user services quarterly
He served as my thesis advisor and has been immensely supportive throughout the preparation of this article. ...
ACknoWLEDGEMEnTS I would like to thank Jeffrey Pomerantz, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
Conversely, only 32.9 percent supported digital reference for detailed research questions, and 46.2 percent believed these questions would be poorly served by digital reference. 13 As librarians experiment ...
doi:10.5860/rusq.47n3.230
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Best Reference Practices are Not Observed in Telephone Ready Reference Services
2008
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Other notes were kept to describe other respondent behaviors and attitudes demonstrated during the transaction. Main Results – 93.6% of the answers to the 125 reference questions were correct. ...
• For a digital database – the database title and the title and year of the specific item (author, publisher, page number not required). • For a print resource – the title and year (author, edition, page ...
This experience is generally reflective of the approach in many libraries and worthy of note and attention. ...
doi:10.18438/b89k59
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