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1. Twenty-eight quick recipes for stretching your popular adult materials budget

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Public libraries -- Finance -- Economic aspects, Library materials -- Purchasing -- Economic aspects, Collection development (Libraries) -- Economic aspects, Library and information science, Company financing, Finance, Purchasing, Economic aspects
Abstract

Those responsible for purchasing 'recreational' materials are often confronted with budgets that are smaller than they personally would like. For example, a public librarian may get 35 percent of the [...]

Published
1995

2. Adult services

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Library science -- Research, Libraries and readers -- Research, Universities and colleges -- Research, Library and information science
Abstract

More than a year ago I issued a call for more research in the broad area of readers' advisory. This column presents preliminary findings of research that was even then [...]

Published
1994

3. Book lists: what we know, what we need to know

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Bibliography -- Methods -- Best books, Public libraries -- Methods, Librarians -- Practice -- Methods, Library and information science, Practice, Methods
Abstract

Librarians have been using book lists as long as there have been libraries. Such lists have both noted and promoted works of all types, from papyrus scrolls and parchment codex [...]

Published
1993

4. Readers' advisory services: a call for more research

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Readers (People) -- Research, Libraries and readers -- Research, Reader's advisory services (Libraries) -- Research, Libraries -- Research, Library and information science, Research
Abstract

We have all been transported to a different time and place by authors who made us laugh and cry, think deeply, or forget our troubles. In fact, many of us [...]

Published
1992

5. Improving business services through the use of focus groups

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Business libraries -- Services -- Usage, Focus groups -- Usage, Libraries -- Services -- Usage, Library and information science, Usage, Services
Abstract

Improving Business Services through the Use of Focus Groups A relatively new marketing technique, the focus group interview, was used by the Iowa City Public Library to determine how the [...]

Published
1991

7. Information and referral services - attitudes and barriers: a survey of North Carolina public libraries

Author

Baker, Sharon L. and Ruey, Ellen Dew

Subjects
Public libraries -- Research, Community organization -- Research, Information services industry -- Research, Libraries and community -- Research, Reference services (Libraries) -- Research, Community -- Research, Information services -- Research, Libraries -- Research, Library and information science, Information services industry, Research
Abstract

In the last twenty years, many public libraries have begun or expanded information and referral services. This study explores the relationship between such services and traditional reference services in public [...]

Published
1988

8. Will fiction classification schemes increase use?

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Library use studies -- Research, Books -- Identification and classification -- Research, Fiction -- Identification and classification -- Research, Library and information science, Identification and classification, Research
Abstract

This article attempts to determine if classifying fiction into genre areas can focus use by browsers who are subject to the effects of information overload. Such focus should increase the [...]

Published
1988

9. Getting personal with the public: A second look at self-introduction.

Author

Wise, Suzanne and Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
*SELF-presentation, *LIBRARIANS
Abstract

Evaluates several methods of self-introduction and their impact in terms of service quality and the personal security of the librarian. Use of name tags; Business cards; Verbal identification; Columnist Mary Ann Ramey's discussion on the general failure of reference librarians to introduce themselves to patrons; Value of personalizing reference assistance.

Published
1995

10. Naming, names claiming names: A proposal for reference librarians' self introduction.

Author

Ramey, Mary Ann and Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
*PROFESSIONAL ethics of librarians, *LIBRARY reference services
Abstract

Proposes a strategy on how to address the lack of self-identification prevalent among reference librarians when offering service to library clients. Simple introduction to library users before or in the course of providing services; Linkage of anonymity pattern to problems in library clients' perception of the service reference librarians provide.

Published
1994

11. New technologies and reference services.

Author

Simmons-Welburn, Janice and Baker, Sharon

Subjects
*LIBRARY reference services, *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
Abstract

Focuses on the challenges faced by librarians in adopting technologies for reference services. Scenarios and responses; Managing change in reference services; Opportunities for collaboration and partnerships with information systems designers and developers.

Published
1993

12. Public Library Organization and Structure

Author

Baker, Sharon L.

Subjects
Public Library Organization and Structure (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Library and information science
Abstract

Public Library Organization and Structure. By T.D. Webb. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 1989. Webb's goals in Public Library Organization and Structure are 'to demonstrate how the rationale of the public [...]

Published
1989

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