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Everything about Reference desk
Public service counter in a library
The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Reference deskA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Tracking student learning outcome engagement at the reference desk to facilitate assessmentInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: An encyclopedia of desksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Reference Desk DilemmasCited 10 times
- Go sideways: Reference interviewA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Research libraryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Reference Desk Dilemmas
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1967 Desk Reference
Reference Desk Notes
The Reference Desk
A Desk Reference
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🆕 Influential since 2022
Tracking student learning outcome engagement at the reference desk to facilitate assessment
A Desk Reference for Future Diplomats
Tracking Instructional Themes at the Reference Desk
Reference Desk Reflection: Promoting "User Empowerment and Autonomy" through the Reference Interview
Using Springshare’s LibCal to Move Librarians off the Reference Desk
📚 Books worth reading
An encyclopedia of desksMark Bridge, Mark Bridge · 1988
PDR guide to drug interactions, side effects, and indications · 2005
SPEC Kit 281Leslie Haas and Jan Robertson · 2004
Webster's new world encyclopediaEditors · 1993
The concise Columbia encyclopedia · 1989- 📕Drug interactions and side effects indexMedical Economics Company · 1991
- 📕Evaluation of service at the General Reference Desk, University of Oregon Library, spring 1975Wyma Jane Hood · 1975
- 📕Wealth Protection MD · 2004
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