Virtual reference services have increasingly become an integral component of academic libraries, offering researchers and students immediate, remote access to expert assistance. These services utilise ...

FARMINGTON HILLS -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, Monday announced a totally redesigned user interface for ...

“Our newly designed Gale Virtual Reference Library enables reference content to literally jump off the shelves – it's easy-to-use, and even easier for researchers to find exactly what they are looking ...

The Newport Beach Public Library offers a vast array of resources to water the mind. Recently added are two new databases, Universal Class and the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Universal Class is a ...

When students and teachers have a question that needs an answer, they soon will be able to access the Clear Creek ISD reference library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In a move that is expected to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This exploratory study investigated the help-seeking preferences of library users at two large urban universities in Toronto. Reference desk ...

Gale will add approximately 750 new books focused on STEM, healthcare and K-12 topics to its e-book platform, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), as a result of signing four new publishers. The ...

Those are a few of the questions a new electronic library service based at Rocky Mountain College has fielded since starting in January. The virtual reference library links students and librarians at ...

This is a time of transition in academic libraries. Core functions -- like reference services, collection development, and preservation -- are being rethought and redefined as libraries move from ...

For years, we’ve been hearing that traditional library reference service is dead. In reality, reference just disappeared, like Jimmy Hoffa. But unlike in the case of Hoffa, no one in the library field ...