Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches

by Peter Sprenkle and Charles Robert Anderson

Book Overview

A daily diary of actual interactions between a reference desk librarian and his patrons Reference Librarianship documents a year in the life of a young librarian working in the "trenches" at a library in the Midwestern United States. This one-of-a-kind book provides a daily diary of every librarian/patron transaction--no matter how mundane or absurd--to demonstrate not only how advances in technology have affected the reference librarian's job, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789029480
• ISBN13: 9780789029485
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"