6.The Possible Demise of Ready Reference
Lastly, some of the study participants suggested that due to the wider availability of information on the Internet, everybody has turned into a reference librarian and ready reference is dead. This means that reference questions are turning into research questions, and that makes librarians and information professionals more important, not less important.Others disagreed and suggested that while ready reference may be on the decline or even extinct in some types of libraries, it is still alive and well in public libraries. On the other hand, using 2003 and 2004 virtual reference data, De Groote et al. reported that ready reference questions accounted for 37 percent of the questions received at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s collaborative reference system. There is wider agreement that research-type reference questions have become more complicated since the popularization of the Internet.
6.The Possible Demise of Ready ReferenceLastly, some of the study participants suggested that due to the wider availability of information on the Internet, everybody has turned into a reference librarian and ready reference is dead. This means that reference questions are turning into research questions, and that makes librarians and information professionals more important, not less important.Others disagreed and suggested that while ready reference may be on the decline or even extinct in some types of libraries, it is still alive and well in public libraries. On the other hand, using 2003 and 2004 virtual reference data, De Groote et al. reported that ready reference questions accounted for 37 percent of the questions received at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s collaborative reference system. There is wider agreement that research-type reference questions have become more complicated since the popularization of the Internet.
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