Ready Reference Collections- A History
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Bowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A History HistoryCarol A. SingerBowling Green State University. singerc(aibgsu.eduFollow this and additional works at: https 7/scholarworks.bgsu.edu/uLpub dr Part of the Library and Information Science CommonsRepository CitationSinger, Carol A., "Ready Reference Collections: A History' (2010). University Lib Ready Reference Collections- A Historyraries Faculty Publications.24.httpsV/scholarv/orks.bgsu edu/ul_pub/24This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University LibrarReady Reference Collections- A History
ies at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in University Libraries Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historyections: A HistoryAbstractReady reference collections were originally formed, and still exist, because they perform a valuable function in providing convenient access to information that is frequently used at the reference desk. As library collections have been transformed from print to electronic, Ready Reference Collections- A Historysome of the materials in these collections have inevitably also been replaced by electronic resources. This article explores the historical roots of rReady Reference Collections- A History
eady reference collections and their recent evolution.IntroductionAs Katz wrote, “in almost every library there is a small collection of print sourcesBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historyn was formed in the United States. However, we can assume several conditions had to be met before there was a need for a ready reference collection. There must have been sufficient reference activity to require the provision of a place dedicated to reference service. There must also have been a refe Ready Reference Collections- A Historyrence collection large enough to make it cumbersome to find the most heavily used items. Once those elements existed, the reference librarian would haReady Reference Collections- A History
ve wanted the most essential tools of the trade near at hand and a ready reference collection would have naturally been assembled.Early History of RefBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A History the first published call for a program of help to library users.2 Reference service wasn’t invented by Green, as evidenced by the testimony of the Columbia College librarian, who reported in 1857 that his work included helping students with their research. He explained, “The Librarian is really an Ready Reference Collections- A Historyinstructor, as much so as a professor...His business is not merely to suggest plans of reading, but actually to discuss a subject."3 Even in 1876. GreReady Reference Collections- A History
en was far from being the only librarian to promote the idea of "assistance to readers.” In that year, Librarian of Congress Spofford wrote, “That is Bowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historyed."4 A letter by Cutter, published in 1877 said, “To assist those who come to the library in finding what will suit their needs is the librarian's highest work. '5In 1880, the librarian of Rochester University wrote, ‘during the free hours on Saturday the professor of English, the professor of hist Ready Reference Collections- A Historyory, and the librarian are always present" to assist students. The President of the University and other faculty members were also sometimes availableReady Reference Collections- A History
for assistance.6 However, Robinson made it clear that the reference work was being done primarily by the teaching faculty:Professors come, not with aBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historyrstand that they do this at some risk. It is one thing to appear always before classes on carefully studied subjects in one department of learning. It is quite another thing to go into a library for several hours every week where scores of students are at work, take off your professional gown, and o Ready Reference Collections- A Historyffer yourself for assistance on everything that comes to you.7Robinson felt that "the demand which we often hear for library professorships" would beReady Reference Collections- A History
more effectively met if all teaching professors scheduled time each week to help students because students profited from access to the subject specialBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historymely important for students: ’Students who are thus encouraged and assisted, almost invariably become our best scholars while here, and after graduating look back to their work in the library as one of the most beneficial exercises of their college course. -8Ware described the Harvard College Librar Ready Reference Collections- A Historyy in 1880: “It is safe to say that a public library does not exist to which readers are more cordially welcomed, or more intelligently and courteouslyReady Reference Collections- A History
aided in their researches, than the library of Harvard College under its present and modern management." He noted that students “gratefully acknowledBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Ready Reference Collections- A Historyo not need."9In 1884. Melvil Dewey hired the first two known college reference librarians. George Baker and William G. Baker, to work at Columbia College.10 By 1895, there were still only a few college and university libraries with a staff member whose primary function was to provide reference servi Ready Reference Collections- A Historyce.11 However, by 1915, reference work was a standard service in many university libraries and some libraries had recognized the importance of this seReady Reference Collections- A History
rvice by forming a reference department.'2 Reference staff often focused on answering “ready reference questions," although they also compiled bibliogBowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: A Bowling Green state UniversityScholarWorks@BGSUUniversity Libraries Faculty PublicationsUniversity LibrariesSpring 2010Ready Reference Collections: AGọi ngay
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