Assignment 1 Lay Of The Land

Lay of the land ( Assignment 1) Hilton C. Buley Library Reference Department The Reference collections (printed and other non- printed reference materials) are located on the first and second floor of the library building. The reference desk is located on the main floor (First floor) of the library in the middle between the entrance and the circulation desk. I Think that location is quite suitable for new visitor or library users, and it also convenient for the reference librarian who could help users without leaving the area of their reference desk, especially it’s near one of the network station available at the library, where student or visitors could access the electronic resources collection through the internet, and the library site, and at the same time they could find the help from the reference librarian who could easily guide or teach them how to get the information they need if it available online. The rest of the place available in these two floor designed to have shelves for restoring these reference materials and the reading places which is far from the noise of entrance. Collections Print materials in the Reference collection consist of almanacs like ( Almanac of the 50 States, The Universal Almanac, World Almanac ), Bibliographies (standard,

general,

and

subject

specific),

biographical

sources,

concordances, dictionaries (English language, foreign language, and subject dictionaries),

general

encyclopedias,

specific

subject

encyclopedias,

geographical sources (atlases, gazetteers, maps) like: Atlas of Connecticut Topographic Maps, there are guidebooks, handbooks, loose leaf materials, manuals, newspaper and periodical indexes and abstracts, pamphlets, statistical/table compilations, basic texts with high reference value, and yearbooks. Government documents are included in the Reference collection if their content falls within the criteria of reference materials

like Census

(1990) , Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, Congressional Directory (105th Congress) Non- print materials (Electronic reference resources) include :1- On-line databases, Alphabetical List of Electronic Resources by Title like which include Most Popular Databases: (Academic Search , JSTOR, Medline, ERIC2e-books, like: (Credo) Reference e-books, including dictionaries, guides, and handbooks. There are also (Digital Dissertations) which have Full text of over 1 million dissertations and theses (mostly from the last 10 years); indexing and abstracts for older dissertations back to 1637. Equivalent of Dissertation Abstracts 3- Internet sites like: The African American Resource Guide to the Internet and Online Services, Cyber hound’s Guide to Internet Databases, Internet Searcher's Handbook. The reference librarian offer help to how to use the Internet at Southern Connecticut State University. There are also other reference sources like: (The National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers, and The New York Public Library Book of How and Where to Look it Up Staff There are seven reference librarians in addition to the head of reference department, they are specialist in (Arts, Business, Education, Science, and Social sciences) their rooms and phone numbers and e- mail addresses are available on the reference department site. They offer research guidance to help users to know how to use the library resources, and how to do basic research using the library resources. They also offer library tour weekly.