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Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches

Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches

Sprenkle, Peter
Anderson, Charles R.

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0789029480
ISBN13: 9780789029485
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 31 2006
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.44
Language: English

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 how the public's expectations have changed, as well. The book also includes observations by a now-retired reference librarian on the current state of the field based on these unedited interactions.

Over the past two decades, the job of reference librarian has seen many changes. But in many ways, reference desk work hasn't changed a bit, with its mix of odd, humorous, routine, and ridiculous requests that capture what it's like to deal with patrons day after day. Reference Librarianship paints a clear picture of the field for library school students, provides emotional and philosophical support to practitioners, and reminds library administrators of what life was like on the front lines.

A sampling of the daily transactions documented in Reference Librarianship:

Monday, May 19, 2003:

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