Access Services departments in libraries have become complex organizations responsible for a range of functions, including circulation, reserves, interlibrary lending and borrowing, document delivery, stacks maintenance, building security, photocopying, and providing general patron assistance. This book offers solutions to familiar problems. Editor(s): Driscoll, Lori L.; Mitchell, W. Bede. Num Pages: 390 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2008. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Best Practices in Access Services
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0789038528
ISBN 13: 9780789038524
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Access Services departments in libraries have become highly complex organizations responsible for a broad range of functions, often including circulation, reserves, interlibrary lending and borrowing, document delivery, stacks maintenance, building security, photocopying, and providing general patron assistance. This book offers effective solutions to familiar problems, fresh ideas for responding to patron needs, and informed speculation on new trends and issues facing access services departments.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Access Services.

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Lori L. Driscoll has been Associate University Librarian and Chair of Access Services at the University of Florida Smathers Libraries since November of 2001. She has been a presenter and panellist on topics related to library technology and copyright at a variety of national conferences in addition to publishing articles of interest to the field of Access Services.

W. Bede Mitchell has served as Dean of the Library and University Librarian at Georgia Southern University since August of 1999. He served as the 2007-2008 president of the Library Administration and Management Association.

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