Become more versatile, competent, and resourceful with these
practical suggestions Becoming a first-class reference librarian
demands proficiency in a wide range of skills. Doing the Work of
Reference offers sound advice for the full spectrum of your
responsibilities. Though many aspects of a reference librarian's
work are changing with astonishing speed, the classic principles in
this volume will never go out of date. This comprehensive volume
begins with hints for orienting yourself to a new job and concludes
with ideas for serving the profession. On the way, Doing the Work
of Reference covers such diverse topics as working with student
assistants, offering reference services to remote users, and
keeping up your professional development. In addition, you will
find strategies for dealing with technological change--not
high-tech information that will become obsolete before the ink is
dry, but ways of approaching the process of change that will work
today, next week, and ten years from now.Doing the Work of
Reference will help you increase your competence in: getting along
with other staff members marketing the library to users and faculty
handling ephemeral materials keeping students'attention in library
instruction courses maintaining good relations with faculty
increasing your subject knowledge and much more This comprehensive
guide is an essential handbook for librarians in the trenches.
Whether you are a new librarian or a veteran at the reference desk,
Doing the Work of Reference will help you burnish your skills.
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