Böcker av Juris Dilevko

Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies. But can their opposition be justified? This work considers the thorny question of why so many librarians have such negative attitudes towards these studies.

Beginning in the early 1980s, readers' advisory services were a widely discussed topic in North American public libraries. This book provides the history of readers' advisory philosophy and offers a perspective on the evolution of the service. It also discusses the creation of Readers' Bureaus in urban public libraries during the 1920s and 1930s.

Reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search. Calling for a re-intellectualization of reference librarianship, this book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service - reading.

In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed.