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Abstract
Reference Librarianship: Notes from the Trenches
Highlights
Opening with an overview of reference and including a quick, but informative nod to its history, the first three chapters of the text focus on providing reference services and cover key fundamental topics varying from how to conduct a proper reference interview to how to design an appropriate database search strategy
The reference resources are divided into nine chapters depending on the type of question that they would help a librarian answer
Chapter eleven would be useful to a librarian who needed help ‘‘Answering Questions about the Lives of People—Biographical Information Sources’’ (p. 199)
Summary
Opening with an overview of reference and including a quick, but informative nod to its history, the first three chapters of the text focus on providing reference services and cover key fundamental topics varying from how to conduct a proper reference interview to how to design an appropriate database search strategy. Those medical librarians who serve a broad spectrum of patrons, which for example, may include health care consumers or public health students, may find this text and its wide variety of reference resources useful.
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