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Circulation takes place at all of these points except the Main Reference Desk. Reference services are offered on floors 1(Main Reference), 5 (Archives), and 6 (Government Documents). The library is open 104 hours a week during the fall and spring semesters, and has extensive library hours for the summer.
The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point ( UW–Stevens Point or UWSP) is a public university in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Established in 1894, it is part of the University of Wisconsin System. UW-Stevens Point grants associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees, as well as doctoral degrees in audiology, educational sustainability, and ...
Digital reference. Digital reference (more commonly called virtual reference) is a service by which a library reference service is conducted online, and the reference transaction is a computer-mediated communication. It is the remote, computer-mediated delivery of reference information provided by library professionals to users who cannot ...
Librarian, Ballard Carnegie Library, Seattle, Washington c. 1907 The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.
Reference interview. A reference interview is a conversation between a librarian and a library user, usually at a reference desk, in which the librarian responds to the user's initial explanation of his or her information need by first attempting to clarify that need and then by directing the user to appropriate information resources.
Wikipedia:List of online reference desks. Shortcut. WP:LORD. This page and its 10 subpages are designed to supplement Wikipedia:Reference desk and its seven subpages. These 11 pages can have a number of uses. They provide a list of alternative places for Wikipedia visitors to ask questions. They provide a list of resources to help Wikipedia ...
The New York Public Library Desk Reference, in its fourth edition as of 2014, is a one-volume general reference work. According to the OCLC (2005 report [1] ) it is one of the most widely held general reference works by contributing libraries, ranked after multi-volume works The World Book Encyclopedia , Encyclopedia Americana and Collier's ...
The Wikipedia reference desk works like a library reference desk. Ask a question here and Wikipedia volunteers will try to answer it. Before asking a question, please try the search boxes below to search Wikipedia as a whole or the reference desk archives. See also the reference desk guidelines . Note: Legal or medical advice is prohibited.