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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1977
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED149775 |
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- Report on Reference Services in Large Academic Libraries. Watson, Paula De Simone Landis, Martha College Libraries Comparative Analysis Data Analysis Library Collections Library Services Library Surveys Organization Reference Services Staff Utilization Data from 44 respondents in a survey of the 50 largest academic members of the Association of Research Libraries and the four largest black university libraries are analyzed in this report on reference services. Included in the analysis are data on reference and directional transactions collected by the fall 1976 LIBGIS survey for the institutions surveyed here. Discussion focuses on staff size and functions, new services, organization of reference departments, and reference collections. Findings indicate a lack of uniformity in tasks assigned to reference departments at large university libraries, differences in established norms for staff size resulting from this lack of uniformity, and a need for more comparative data. The percentage of departments responsible for each of 17 tasks is provided in Table 1. Data for each responding library presented in Table 2 include responsibilities of the reference department, staff size, size of library collection, university enrollment, and size of faculty. (KP)