Reference Services Review: Volume 25 Issue 1
Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age
Table of contents
Alzheimer’s Disease, Long‐Term Care, and Health Policy: Who’s Going to Pay the Bill?
Jennifer MonathMany people with Alzheimer’s Disease need long‐term care to help with activities of daily living. Annual costs are estimated at between $38 billion and $42 billion. Medicare does…
Creating an X Window Terminal‐based Information Technology Center
Tim W. KlassenThe last decade has seen a dramatic jump in the amount of online electronic resources available to library patrons. With this change has come the need for libraries to create…
Tropic of Cancer and the Censors: A Case Study and Bibliographic Guide to the Literature
Larry Kincaid, Grove KogerHenry Miller published Tropic of Cancer in Paris in 1934. He was convinced that it was a work of genius, and over the next several years a wide range of writers and critics agreed…
Civil War Resources on the Internet: An Annotated Bibliography
William Vincenti, McKinley SielaffHistorians and those interested in Civil War history will not be disappointed in the large number of Internet sites dealing with ths subject. The vast array of primary and…
Human Rights on the Internet: A Select Bibliography of Web Resources
Christina E. Carter, Russ DavidsonThe regular occurrence of human rights abuses makes timely dissemination of information imperative. Much as the fax machine alerted those outside China's borders to its student…
Coping with Workplace Change: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources
Maureen KilcullenA pressing task facing reference librarians in public and academic libraries in the 1990s has been helping downsized workers find sources for job hunting. Most libraries carry…
Creating the User‐Friendly Library by Evaluating Patron Perception of Signage
Ellen Bosman, Carol RusinekDespite all manners of instruction, there is a nagging sense that patrons have difficulty using the library. Further, despite the impact of the World Wide Web, the library “as a…
Baseline Subject Competencies for the Academic Reference Desk
Candace R. Benefiel, Jeannie P. Miller, Diana Ramirez“What basic competencies—body of knowledge, skills, and tools—are needed to work at a centralized reference desk in an academic library?” asked reference staff of Texas A&M…
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