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In transition: librarians search for answers to resource preferences.

Publication: Information Today
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In transition: librarians search for answers to resource preferences.(Cover Notes)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web edited by William J. Frost Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press

Also published as The Reference Librarian, Nos. 91/92 (2005) ISBN: 0-7890-2840-9 310 pages $34.95, softcover

Many librarians struggle to find reference resources that will be most useful to our patrons. Do patrons only want electronic sources? How can we get them (and should we even try) to use a rich resource such as The World Almanac? How should we spend our reference budget and train our users? When can we expect to eliminate paper reference books?

If you manage a reference collection or provide some reference service to library users, these issues are a few of the many you are facing. If you want to learn...

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