Reference and Information Services: An Introduction

YES!! I AM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS BRICK OF A BOOK!~

This is a good book that will give you some solid information and basic 101 to info services & reference. Some of the chapters/entries are skip-able and you'll be able to tell (like what a dictionary is). I read the 4th edition and I can already tell many online references are out of date, BUT this book gives a TON of citations and other excellent resources. I feel like one of these days I will have to highlight all resource materials referenced in this book and spend more time accessing them and adding them to my own lib guide of useful resources.

All and all this book is good enough, I found most of it quite boring - but has great reference material to discover and ground work for library science studies.

It's a textbook, but curiously I didn't hate reading it. It throws a lot (and I mean a lot!) of research and reference sources at you in each chapter, which can get overwhelming. Theres no real analysis provided with the sources either, so it's up to you to figure out how useful they would be for research requests. This is the first textbook I've read during my masters that I would actually consider keeping.