Reading and the reference librarian : the importance to library service of staff reading habits / by Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb.
"For reference librarians, technological competence has become the order of the day. Process-based training increasingly dominates many library and information science programs. This book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service: reading."--Jacket.
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Ideology and the deprofessionalization of the reference function
- Reading and reference work
- The importance of being current : how reading newspapers and magazines affects the work of academic reference librarians
- Developing a "reader's mind" : how reading nonfiction and fiction affects the work of academic reference librarians
- You can lead librarians to knowledge, but you can't make them think : factors affecting how and how much academic librarians read
- Being a jack-of-all-trades : how staying current affects the work of public library reference staff members
- Meeting the expectations of professors : the need for academic librarians to read and think as if they were researchers
- Reading as a species of intellectual capital.