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Uniquely positioned to connect library users to the information they seek, and thus to the wider world, library staff who serve on the front lines of reference have both the power and responsibility to position the library as an institution that remains relevant and responsive. This collection takes a critical look at the overarching trends that affect current library policy and practice regarding the process of delivering information services, and how factors such as public policy, economics, and popular culture will continue to affect those trends in the future. Library leaders and visionaries from across the spectrum of institutions address such topics as The history of reference librarianship and how it relates to the current landscape Privacy, censorship, and reference ethics The effects of the "born digital" library user on the purpose and function of reference Strategic challenges for reference in the coming decade A reference forecast for 2025Placing these issues in historical and cultural context, this book offers practical solutions for new paradigms of reference service for all users.

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Library Journal Review

All professions are encountering change in connecting with their public, and libraries are no exception. Anderson (reference librarian, Rutgers Univ. Camden) and Cvetkovic (head of access and collection svcs., Rutgers Univ. Camden) use nine chapters to put reference services into historical context, provide insight into current trends, and offer a prognostication about the future. In some ways, they are successful in identifying the changes from static reference services to more proactive models such as using embedded services, QR codes, social media, chat offerings, and an expanded role in teaching. However, this work does have issues with outdated resources, which the editors readily admit in the introduction (e.g., there is a newer version of the "ACRL Top Trends in Academic Libraries" than the one cited here, and they use Google Blog Search, which has been discontinued). VERDICT Librarians who already work in forward-thinking libraries will find little new here, but less eager institutions may find value in using this resource as a starting point for discussions on moving into a new paradigm. This is not as practical as Laura Saunders, Lillian Rozaklis, and Eileen G. Abels's Repositioning Reference and therefore is best suited for beginning the conversation rather than as a roadmap to change.-Maria Bagshaw, Elgin Community Coll. Lib., IL © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Reinventing Reference aims to define what reference service is in our current age and what it will be in the not-too-distant future. Although most contributors are academic librarians, there is also representation from public and school libraries. Part 1, Understanding Reference, takes us from the first reference departments, in the 1800s, to today's digital-library users, and it includes an interesting chapter on ethics in the twenty-first century and the digital divide. Part 2, Reference 2.0, outlines reference service in academic, public, school, and one special (arts) libraries. Part 3 addresses the Near Future of Reference, which covers topics from artificial intelligence to the concept of transliteracy. This is a perfect guide to the past, present, and near future of reference for library students or new librarians.--Compton-Dzak, Emily Copyright 2015 Booklist