Eliminating traditional reference services in an academic health sciences library: a case study
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Eliminating traditional reference services in an academic health sciences library: a case study.
QUESTION How were traditional librarian reference desk services successfully eliminated at one health sciences library? SETTING The analysis was done at an academic health sciences library at a major research university. METHOD A gap analysis was performed, evaluating changes in the first eleven months through analysis of reference transaction and instructional session data. MAIN RESULTS ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1536-5050,1558-9439
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.4.004