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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 its 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

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(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, ERIC2-

e-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 hounds 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.

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