Information Brokers and Reference Services

Abstract

Contents Agreeing to Disagree: The Relations Between Librarians and Brokers I. Fee-Based Services: Beginning of an Era The Age of the Information Broker: An Introduction Computer Search Services and Information Brokering in Academic Libraries Issues Facing Private Academic Libraries Considering Fee-Based Programs II. Attitudes: Three Surveys and an Opinion The Attitudes of Academic Reference Librarians Towards Information Brokers The Effect of Information Brokers on Reference Services: Reference Librarians Express Their Opinions Working Together--The Librarian and the Broker Librarian and Information Broker: The Challenge of Cooperation III. Information Systems and Products: Impact on Reference Services The Reference Collection Development Decision: Will New Information Technologies Influence Libraries' Collecting Patterns? Virtual Information Systems: Unlimited Resources for Information Retrieval A MINITEX Reference Service: A Publicly Funded Information Broker ExeLS: Executive Library Services IV. Brokers and Consultants: The New Entrepreneurs The Entrepreneurial Librarian Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Successful Information Broker? To Be or Not To Be an Information Broker Information Brokering: Facts and Fantasy Boss Broker: The Information Entrepreneur as Employer Library Consulting: Challenge, Autonomy, and Risk Consultants for Interlibrary Loan V. Current Trends in Reference Services Introduction The Importance of the Verb in the Reference Question I Heard You Say . . . Peer Coaching for More Effective Reference Service A Funaholic in the Reference Room Reference Queries, Experience, and Secondary Reference Books Instruction for Genealogists in the Public Library Abstracting for Reference Librarians Searching of East Slavic Materials in Library Catalogs