Home Insulating and Home Births: Do Patrons' Sex-typed Questions Influence Judgments about the Competence of Reference Librarians?.

Harris, Roma M.; Michell, Gillian

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Publication Date: 1988

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Home Insulating and Home Births: Do Patrons' Sex-typed Questions Influence Judgments about the Competence of Reference Librarians?

Harris, Roma M.; Michell, Gillian

RQ, v28 n2 p179-84 Win 1988

Master's students in library science and students in a library technician program were asked to read scripts of reference interviews in which the amount of bibliographic instruction and the "maleness" or "femaleness" of questions were varied. They were then asked to make a judgment about the competence of the reference librarian in the script. (10 references) (MES)

Descriptors: Competence, Interviews, Library Instruction, Library Services, Public Libraries, Reference Services, Scripts, Sex Bias, User Needs (Information)

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