Reinventing Reference : How Public, Academic, and School Libraries Deliver Value in the Age of Google.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
Intro -- Reinventing Reference -- Cover -- 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 Contributors -- Index.
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.
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Electronic reference services (Libraries). Librarians -- Professional ethics. Libraries and the Internet. Reference librarians -- Effect of technological innovations on. Reference services (Libraries) -- Information technology. Reference services (Libraries).