Reaching beyond the reference books in public libraries

  • Authors:

  • Ann Curry

  • Affiliations:

  • Associate Professor and Chair of Doctoral Studies Program, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, 301 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, BC, ...

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Web Based Communities
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

An analysis of the URLs from transaction logs obtained from the public access terminals in four Canadian cities revealed that customers accessed a wide variety of web-based communities devoted to diverse subjects. This paper argues that public library reference librarians should include more web-based communities in the sources that they recommend to customers.