Business Reference Services and Sources: How End Users and Librarians Work Together [Hardcover]

ContentsIntroduction

• Business Services and the Internet
• Using the Internet to Teach U.S. Business Research to Students of English as a Second Language
• Developing an Internet Site for School Business Officials: Benefits of a Reference Librarian-External User Partnership
• Company Information on the World Wide Web: Using Corporate Home Pages to Supplement Traditional Business Resources
• Networking
• Building a Better Mousetrap: Networking with Community Business Resources
• The Information Specialist Customer Partnership
• Information-Seeking Behavior of Business Students: A Research Study
• The Reference Librarian and the Business Professor: A Strategic Alliance that Works
• Bibliographic Instruction for Business Classes: How to Avoid Information Overload
• Reference Services and Collection Development Faculty Outreach Through the Campus Network
• Index

The most proactive source for business reference librarian information on the market, Business Reference Services and Sources: How End Users and Librarians Work Together shows you that the librarian-customer relationship is as synergistic as ever. It gives you timely facts about how librarians and users work together and how those partnerships are built. In it, youll encounter group projects done by faculty, students, external users, and non-librarian supervisors and discover an enlightening spirit of collaboration lacking in most research literature today.

Further establishing the marketability of contemporary research librarians, Business Reference Service and Sources goes to the front lines of business reference service, solidifying and updating the librarian-user partnership. Youll see how research librarians can reach users at the crux of their needs. Overall, individual chapters address the needs of such people as students, business school officials, and l³½