Sure, librarians are quick to acknowledge that library reference is ... been lots of attention paid to the reference desk itself, as though better interior design will buck up declining reference ...

The Reference Desk spotlights the newest books in the Ellensburg Public Library’s collections. This special installment of ...

At the University of California at Merced’s library, there is no reference desk and there never has been. The way reference services are delivered there would intrigue some and disturb others.

“Do you guys need any tutors for football?” “Do you have anything to eat?” These and other urgent academic library reference questions are answered in this final National Library Week (April 13-19) ...

my first job as a professional librarian was as a teen librarian for the Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Ill. But at Cook, all the librarians did shifts on the reference desk—and I loved it.

In 1955, William Marchant wrote a play on that theme, called The Desk Set, pitting a fictional computer very much like UNIVAC against the reference library staff of a major radio-television ...