[Coil-l] Thanks for the heads-up, Tamie

[Megan Donald]

This book looks wonderful! I wonder if we could have a COIL-wide book discussion… anybody interested?!

From: coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Tamie Willis
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 4:25 PM
To: Clements, Helen
Cc: Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians (OK-ACRL)
Subject: Re: [Coil-l] Thanks for the heads-up, Tamie

Helen asked if I would share the name of the book that our librarians are discussing this semester so here it is...

Rethinking reference for academic libraries :
innovative developments and future trends (2015)

Carrie Forbes;  Jennifer Bowers
Contents:

Introduction : Reimagining reference and research services for the twenty-first-century academic library / Jennifer Bowers and Carrie Forbes -- Part I. Collaboration: partnerships for lifelong learning : Step away from the desk: re-casting the reference librarian as academic partner / Michael Courtney and Angela Courtney -- The scholarly commons: emerging research services for graduate students and faculty / Merinda Kaye Hensley -- Part II. Diversity: meeting the information needs of a changing demographic : The rainbow connection: reference services for the LGBT community in academic libraries / Matthew P. Ciszek -- Reference services in a shifting world: other languages, other services / Valeria E. Molteni and Eileen K. Bosch -- As needs change, so must we: a case study of innovative outreach to changing demographics / Li Fu -- Part III. Technology: reference service beyond the library walls : Roving reference: taking the library to its users / Zara Wilkinson -- Connecting questions with answers / Ellie Dworak and Carrie Moore -- Part IV. Assessment: does reference make a difference? : Transforming reference services: more than meets the eye / Kawanna Bright, Consuella Askew, and Lori Driver -- Dialogic mapping: evolving reference into an instructional support for graduate research / Corinne Laverty and Elizabeth A. Lee -- Does the reference desk still matter?: Assessing the desk paradigm at the University of Washington Libraries / Deb Raftus and Kathleen Collins -- Part V. Professional competencies: skills for a new generation : From ready reference to research conversations: the role of instruction in academic reference service / Melanie Maksin -- Necessities of librarianship: competencies for a new generation / Danielle Colbert-Lewis, Jamillah Scott-Branch, and David Rachlin -- Professional competencies for the virtual reference librarian: digital literacy, soft skills, and customer service / Christine Tobias -- Mediating for digital primary source research: expanding reference services / Peggy Keeran.
Abstract:

The rapid development of the Web and Web-based technologies has led to an ongoing redefinition of reference services in academic libraries. A growing diversity of users and the need and possibility for collaboration in delivering reference services bring additional pressures for change. At the same time, there are growing demands for libraries to show accountability and service value. All of these trends have impacted the field and will continue to shape reference and research services. And they have led to a need for increasingly specialized professional competencies and a literature to support them. In order to reimagine reference service for twenty-first century learning environments, practitioners will need to understand several focal areas of emerging reference. In particular, collaboration with campus partners, diverse student populations, technological innovations, the need for assessment, and new professional competencies, present new challenges and opportunities for creating a twenty-first century learning environment. Librarians must not only understand, but also embrace these emerging reference practices. This edited volume, containing five sections and fourteen chapters, reviews the current state of reference services in academic libraries with an emphasis on innovative developments and future trends. The main theme that runs through the book is the urgent need for inventive, imaginative, and responsive reference and research services. Through literature reviews and case studies, this book provides professionals with a convenient compilation of timely issues and models at comparable institutions. As academic libraries shift from functioning primarily as collections repositories to serving as key players in discovery and knowledge creation, value-added services, such as reference, are even more central to libraries' and universities' changing missions.--Publisher website.




On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Clements, Helen <helen.clements at okstate.edu<mailto:helen.clements at okstate.edu>> wrote:
But would you mind sharing the name of the book?  It sounds like it might be of interest to a lot of us.

Best regards

Helen P. Clements,
Associate Professor, Research & Learning Services
306 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

Email helen.clements at okstate.edu<mailto:helen.clements at okstate.edu>
Phone 405-744-9774




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Tamie Willis, Library Director

Professor of Library Science

Tom & Ada Beam Library

Oklahoma Christian University

Box 11000

Oklahoma City, OK  73136-1100

(405) 425-5320

tamie.willis at oc.edu<mailto:tamie.willis at oc.edu>
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