Reference Services Review: Volume 37 Issue 2

Extending liaison collaboration: partnering with faculty in support of a student learning community

Onda Bennett, Karen Gilbert

The purpose of this article is to describe the successful collaboration between faculty in Eastern Kentucky University Libraries and the University's Occupational Therapy…

Integrating information literacy skills into academic summer programs for precollege students

Bobbie L. Collins

This paper aims to describe the library instructional program that has been developed at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University to teach information literacy…

Undergraduate research in the public domain: the evaluation of non‐academic sources online

Candice Dahl

This paper seeks to suggest that criteria commonly used to teach undergraduates to evaluate online resources are inadequate when dealing with non‐academic items in the public…

Guidelines for effective online instruction using multimedia screencasts

Joanne Oud

This paper aims to present guidelines for using streaming multimedia tutorials in academic library instruction.

Piloting an information commons at HKUST Library

Gabrielle K.W. Wong

The purpose of this paper is to present the experience of piloting an information commons at a major academic library in Hong Kong.

The information and learning commons: a selective guide to sources

Tim Held

This bibliography aims to give citations and annotations for a core selection of sources on the information and learning commons trend in academic libraries.

A decade of personalized research assistance

Ramirose Attebury, Nancy Sprague, Nancy J. Young

The University of Idaho Library's Research Assistance Program has offered personalized research consultations to more than 1,150 students over ten years. This article aims to…

A digital reference desk for the National Library of Iran: A prototype based on content analysis of the digital reference desks of the world's national libraries

Farideh Osareh, Zahed Bigdeli, Ali Mansouri, Ali Akbar Khasseh

This survey aims to provide an appropriate prototype for the Digital Reference Desk of the National Library of Iran.

Latino health: an annotated research guide

Rachel Slough

This paper seeks to provide a guide to significant primary and secondary resources relevant to the study of Latino health in the USA. It builds on prior scholarship to reflect the…

Editorial

Eleanor Mitchell, Sarah Barbara Watstein