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Clarifying a library user's request
A reference interview is a conversation between a librarian and a library user, usually at a reference desk, in which the librarian responds to the user's initial explanation of their information need by first attempting to clarify that need and then by directing the user to appropriate information resources. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Reference interviewA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: How, when and why do negotiators use reference points? A qualitative interview study with negotiation practitionersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Writing Down the BonesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Screening and assessing ideas and delusions of reference using a semi-structured interview scale: A validation study of the Ideas of Reference Interview Scale (IRIS) in early psychosis patientsCited 27 times
- Go sideways: Digital referenceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Reference deskA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Screening and assessing ideas and delusions of reference using a semi-structured interview scale: A validation study of the Ideas of Reference Interview Scale (IRIS) in early psychosis patients
Asking "Why" Questions in the Reference Interview: A Theoretical Justification
The chat reference interview: seeking evidence based on RUSA's guidelines
The Application of RUSA Standards to the Virtual Reference Interview
The Pedagogical Data Reference Interview
The Performance of Professionals and Nonprofessionals in the Reference Interview
The Evolution of the Reference Interview
Teaching the reference interview through practice-based assignments
🆕 Influential since 2022
How, when and why do negotiators use reference points? A qualitative interview study with negotiation practitioners
Teaching Reference Interview Skills with Improv
The Delirium Interview as a new reference standard in studies on delirium assessment tools
The reference interview for creative technology labs
Reference Desk Reflection: Promoting "User Empowerment and Autonomy" through the Reference Interview
📚 Books worth reading
Writing Down the BonesNatalie Goldberg, Nathalie Goldberg · 1986
Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey researchWillem E. Saris · 2007
The Sound on the PageBen Yagoda · 2004
How to make a miniature zooVinson Brown · 1957
Beyond BIMDanelle Briscoe · 2015- 📕Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary PhotographyMarni Shindelman, Anne Leighton Massoni · 2018
Isabel AllendeCelia Correas de Zapata, Celia Correas Zapata · 1998
Essentials of qualitative interviewingKarin Olson · 2011
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