University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Online ready reference in the public library

Anderson, Charles R.

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Description

Title
Online ready reference in the public library
Author(s)
Anderson, Charles R.
Issue Date
1987
Keyword(s)
  • Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
  • Online bibliographic searching
  • Database searching
  • Libraries and electronic publishing
  • Public libraries
Abstract
Online computer databases can serve as excellent and cost effective resources for ready reference in public libraries. In the following discussion some philosophical and cost factors as well as staffing patterns connected with online searching will be examined. The primary source for this information comes from a three-year attempt to maximize usage of online searching, given existing cost constraints, in a medium-sized public library.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (24th : 1987)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1987.

Owning Collections

1987: Questions and Answers: Strategies for Using the Electronic Reference Collection PRIMARY
24th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1987). Edited by Linda C. Smith.