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Presentation
Environmental Scan of Off-Site Reference in Academic Libraries
American Library Association Annual Conference (2012)
  • Elizabeth Stephan
  • Penny Scott, University of San Francisco
Abstract
Taking library services outside of the library seems to be a growing trend in academic libraries, but is it really? In 2011, the authors conducted an online survey of academic libraries to measure if and how off-site reference is being utilized in academic libraries in order to provide a snapshot of current and past off-site reference trends. Broken down into four sections, the poster will look at the four questions asked of survey participants: Those who currently hold offsite reference hours, those who have held off-site reference hours in the past but stopped, those who have never held off-site reference hours in the past but plan to offer them in the future, and, finally, those who have never held off-site reference hours and would not consider it in the future. The poster will present, among other things, how programs were developed, if they were individual or library-wide programs, why programs stopped, and why people weren’t interested in holding off-site hours.
Publication Date
Summer June 23, 2012
Location
Anaheim, California
Citation Information
“Environmental Scan of Off-Site Reference in Academic Libraries” (with Penny Scott); American Library Association, June 2012.