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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461034403321

Titolo

Reinventing reference : how libraries deliver value in the age of Google / / edited by Katie Elson Anderson and Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, [Illinois] : , : ALA Editions, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8389-1285-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

025.5/2

Soggetti

Reference services (Libraries)

Electronic reference services (Libraries)

Reference services (Libraries) - Information technology

Reference librarians - Effect of technological innovations on

Librarians - Professional ethics

Libraries and the Internet

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Reinventing Reference; Contents; Introduction. Referencing the Future; Part 1. Understanding Reference; Chapter 1. A History of Reference; Chapter 2. Terrorism, Privacy, and Porn; Chapter 3. The Real Reference Solution; Part 2. Reference 2.0; Chapter 4. Reference Service Trends and Forecasts for Academic Librarianship; Chapter 5. The State of Reference in School Libraries; Chapter 6. The Future of Public Library Reference; Chapter 7. The Central Image; Part 3. ""Dude, Where's My Jetpack?""; Chapter 8. Whither Libraries?; Chapter 9. Future World; Coda. LibraryNext: Reference in 2052

About the Editors and ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This collection takes a critical look at the overarching trends that affect current library policy and practice regarding the process of delivering information services, and how factors such as public policy, economics, and popular culture will continue to affect those trends in the future