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Bennett, Christine; Napp, Duane – Reference Librarian, 1997
Information specialists at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) Manufacturing Information Resource Center (MIRC) contribute expertise, information, and skills to their customer teams. This article describes three librarian customer partnerships, shares recommendations from experienced teams for fostering librarian customer…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Information Scientists, Information Services, Librarians
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Sisson, Lorene; Pontau, Donna – Reference Librarian, 1995
Reference librarians must determine the unique information needs of patrons and develop and market appropriate collections and services. The changing instructional paradigm in education provides an opportunity for encouraging information use and literacy for the educational community. Discussion includes information seeking and library use by…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Seeking, Instructional Materials, Librarians
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Sutton, Stuart A. – Reference Librarian, 1996
Explores the future of reference librarianship within the context of the enabling technologies that will chart library development in the 21st century. The article types libraries into categories of "traditional,""automated,""hybrid," and "digital." The typology delineates shifts in human/machine…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
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Hopkins, Richard L. – Reference Librarian, 1995
Librarians will have to become more adept in the future in developing ways to assist users in narrowing or focusing information searches. Examples are provided of attempts by library and information professionals to help users cope with the problem of information overload. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Seeking, Librarians, Library Development
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LaGuardia, Cheryl; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1993
Describes the library instruction program at the University of California Santa Barbara, which uses a team-teaching method to cope with reduced staff and increased enrollment, collection, and teaching responsibilities. The benefits include a sense of departmental teamwork, improved student library literacy, and faculty and student goodwill. (EAM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Enrollment, Faculty, Higher Education
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Moody, Marilyn K.; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1992
Presents seven articles that discuss reference librarians and technical services librarians; evaluating online public access catalogs; bibliographic instruction and CD-ROMs; interactive multimedia and electronic media in academic libraries; open versus closed stacks for academic library periodical collections; policies and procedures manuals as…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Guides