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Grotti, Margaret G.; Sobel, Karen – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
Since the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) unveiled its WorldCat Local library catalog discovery layer in 2008, library instructors have debated how to incorporate this tool into their teaching. WorldCat Local's faceted searching brings both educational benefits and unexpected challenges to the classroom. Instructors frequently hold formal…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods, Library Instruction
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Todorinova, Lily; Huse, Andy; Lewis, Barbara; Torrence, Matt – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic departments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing…
Descriptors: Interviews, Reference Services, Library Services, Decision Making
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Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley, Ed. – Public Services Quarterly, 2008
This article highlights various literature covering a broad range of topics that are of interest to public services librarians, from collections and user services to one's own research and professional development. Although addressing many topics, these authors have all used or advocate for solid research methods and data analysis in their works,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Library Research, Research Methodology, Academic Libraries