Day One: Reference

I really love my Reference professor, Angela Courtney. I am now way more excited then I was in the beginning. We talked a bit about the syllabus and what our plan for the semester was... Which I will not share with you cause you get to think about it when I do... And right now? I'm not thinking about it. MUAHAHAHAHA

However, I can tell you we talked about what Reference meant to the individual in the class. Here is some of the stuff we thought about when we thought of Reference of a Reference librarian...

Reference Interview: Answer vs. How
Environment
People
Databases
Idiosyncratic
Alternatives: Yahoo Answers, etc
E-mail, Chat, Forums, Wikis, Facebook, Twitter
Good versions of Bad Reference
Assessment and evaluation
Query Skills, Keywords
Intuition for Reference
last ditch effort
Librarian as a gatekeeper, like an editor
Detective
Love of Knowledge
Teacher
What does the person really want
Teamwork and Collaboration
Navigator

Think about it and see if you come up with the same answers or different ones. I have some reading to do... But since I'm not there yet. You'll just have to wait till I read it. Enjoy all!

The Sock Monkey Librarian