VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES: IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS
| dc.contributor.author | Shachaf, Pnina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-19T00:00:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-18T23:25:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-12 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2008-11-19 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES: IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS 2007-12, 34(2):20-24 Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105419 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Virtual reference, which allows users to connect easily with librarians online, is becoming popular. Librarians answer thousands of questions every day over the Internet. As the service matures, professional associations publish standards that provide professional guidelines to improve the quality of the services. This article focuses attention on the quality of these e-services in light of professional and ethical standards in the field. It examines the extent to which librarians adhere to professional and ethical guidelines and the role that virtual reference plays in providing services to diverse user groups. First, it discusses adherence to the professional standards and shows that the professional behaviors of librarians vary depending on user, institution, and request types. Then, it discusses the extent to which librarians provide equitable online reference services to diverse users groups and the inconsistent findings from empirical research. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reference Services | en_US |
| dc.subject | Standards | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Professional standards | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Ethical standards | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Virtual reference | en_US |
| dc.title | VIRTUAL REFERENCE SERVICES: IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article (Paginated) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-21T12:07:05Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Virtual reference, which allows users to connect easily with librarians online, is becoming popular. Librarians answer thousands of questions every day over the Internet. As the service matures, professional associations publish standards that provide professional guidelines to improve the quality of the services. This article focuses attention on the quality of these e-services in light of professional and ethical standards in the field. It examines the extent to which librarians adhere to professional and ethical guidelines and the role that virtual reference plays in providing services to diverse user groups. First, it discusses adherence to the professional standards and shows that the professional behaviors of librarians vary depending on user, institution, and request types. Then, it discusses the extent to which librarians provide equitable online reference services to diverse users groups and the inconsistent findings from empirical research. |
