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Sustainable Reference Service Practices in the 21st Century

Sustainable Reference Service Practices in the 21st Century
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Author(s): Ademola F. Omosekejimi (Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Nigeria), Angela Chiwendu Nweke (Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos, Nigeria), Benjamin Kenechukwu Nwobu (Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria)and Sylvester Israel Ebhonu (Admiralty University of Nigeria, Nigeria)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 18
Source title: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Library Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Victoria Okojie (University of Abuja, Nigeria)and Magnus Osahon Igbinovia (Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5964-5.ch014

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Abstract

This chapter focused on sustainable reference service practices in the 21st century. The chapter discussed issues relating to overview of reference service, traditional reference services, reference resources prior ICT proliferation, reference service practices in the 21st century. Also, issues relating to 21st century reference sources/resources, advantages of electronic/virtual reference service, sustaining reference service practices in the 21st century, as well as sustainability challenges of 21st century reference service practices were all discussed. The chapter reviewed significant literature on the topic of discussion, and the researcher used Google to obtain scholarly papers from open access databases that are relevant to the study, which provided the basis for the reviewed literature.

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