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The Future of Reference Services, ALA RUSA Program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carol Tobin)
Fri Jun 7 19:01:08 2002
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:34:41 -0400
From: Carol Tobin <cmtobin@EMAIL.UNC.EDU>
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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) will be holding a
program on "The Future of Reference Services".
Sunday, June 16, 2002; 1:30-3:30 pm
Georgia World Congress Center, Room A412
Reference service continues to evolve with the increased use of new
communication technologies the uninterrupted growth of the Internet the
dramatic increase in availability of remote and full text databases and
the formation of non-library "help" services. Join reference practitioners
and thinkers as they share and discuss their ideas on the future of
reference services and what that future might mean to all reference staff
and managers.
White papers from Joseph Janes, Assistant Professor, Information School,
University of Washington; Anne G. Lipow, Director, Library Solutions
Institute and Press; James Rettig, University Librarian, University of
Richmond Library; David Tyckson, Head of Reference, California State
University-Fresno Library; Jo Bell Whitlatch, Associate Dean, San Jose
State University Library are already posted on the RUSA website
http://www.ala.org/rusa/forums/index.html as part of the first RUSA
Forum. There is an online response form at the end of each paper and there
are already a number of comments.
Please join us at the program and if you can't attend in person, read and
respond on the web.
Carol M. Tobin
President, RUSA
Head, Davis Library Reference
CB#3912, Davis Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
919-962-1151, fax 919-962-5537
cmtobin@email.unc.edu
