The librarian who staffs the reference desk can usually do the following by virtue of their professional training and experience:

* The librarian can look up a brief, factual answer to a specific question.

* The librarian can use the catalogue to find out whether the library owns an item with a particular title or author, or that contains a short story, chapter, song, or poem with a particular title, or to compile a list of books by a particular author or on a particular subject.

* The librarian can briefly teach the user how to use the catalogue and how to use its advanced features, or recommend the proper subject words or terms that are used in the catalogue for the topic the user has in mind.

* The librarian can often take the library user directly to the shelves with books on a certain topic without using the catalogue.

* The librarian is familiar with the contents of hundreds of reference books, and can recommend books that might contain the answer to a particular question.

* The librarian can recommend reliable web sites, give advice on searching the Internet for information, and evaluate the reliability of the information on web sites.

* If the library doesn't have information on a given topic, or if the library user wants more information, the librarian can refer the library user to another library or to an organization that can be contacted by phone or mail.

In a more subtle homage, the PC game Fallout Tactics includes a librarian in a desolate world who wants the player to find his missing glasses so he can read his books.

A detailed survey of the controversy can be found in Douglas Yeo's 2004 edition of the " Haydn " piece ( ISMN M-57015-175-1 ).</ ref > In 1870, Brahms's friend Carl Ferdinand Pohl, the librarian of the Vienna Philharmonic Society, who was working on a Haydn biography at the time, showed Brahms a transcription he had made of a piece attributed to Haydn titled Divertimento No. 1.

The cast of characters includes the spoiled Swiss milkmaid incarnation Heidi, her doting mother Cornelia, her brother Whit, Kate's not-so-secret unwanted admirer, and Pogo, a librarian who can only speak in nursery rhymes.

Patrons can use the West Florida Public Library website to search the library's catalog, submit reference questions to a librarian, reserve West Florida Public Library materials, and request materials from libraries across the country via interlibrary loan.

" How can I thank you for such a wonderful day ... if any schools would like verification of their value for money, just point them our way .... this was one day that we will talk about for a long time to come " ( Jane Scott, librarian, Hilbre High School, The Wirral ), " Thank you sincerely for yesterday-you were terrific and genuinely " took the place by storm " in the nicest possible way.

At the workshop, Mrs. Schenk will discuss `` the board and the staff, librarian-board relationships, personnel policies, how good is our librarian and staff, how good am I as a library board member and how good is our library ''.

Every library borrower, or at least those whose taste goes beyond the five-cent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the librarian say apologetically, `` I'm sorry, but we don't have that book.

consequently an experienced children's librarian at headquarters conducts a guidance program designed to promote well-planned library activities, cooperating with the children's librarians in member libraries by means of individual conferences, workshops, and frequent visits.

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".

In 1770 Lessing became librarian at the ducal library, now the Herzog August Library ( Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Bibliotheca Augusta ), in Wolfenbüttel.

Meanwhile Wilhelm had received an appointment in the Kassel library, and in 1816 Jacob was made second librarian under Volkel.

# failure to consult with the librarian or with library experts

Much advancement has undoubtedly been made toward cooperation between architect and librarian, and many good designers have made library buildings their specialty, nevertheless it seems that the ideal type of library is not yet realized — the type so adapted to its purpose that it would be immediately recognized as such, as is the case with school buildings at the present time.

Using a structured reference interview, the librarian works with the library user to clarify their needs and determine what information sources will fill them.

* Books and other items that are being held for library users who asked the librarian by phone to set them aside for them to pick up later the same day, or within the next few days.

It goes hand in hand with library ( descriptive ) cataloging under the rubric of cying library materials is called a cataloguer or catalog librarian.

" Yang secured Mao employment at the university library, where he became assistant to the librarian Li Dazhao ( 1888 – 1927 ), an early Chinese communist.

A librarian in Pampa shelved this manuscript under Guthrie's name, but it was later lost in a library reorganization.

Novalee visits the library and meets Forney Hull ( James Frain ), who works at the library while caring for his sister ( the librarian ), whose health has been ruined by alcoholism.

The virtual interface was achieved through the MidiTrack program, which included a 16 track MIDI recorder / sequencer, full graphic user interface ( GUI ), and a programmer / editor / librarian.

All the functions performed by a trained librarian employed in the reference section of a library to meet the information needs of patrons ( in person, by telephone, or electronically ), including but not limited to answering substantive questions, instructing users in the selection and use of appropriate tools and techniques for finding information, conducting searches on behalf of the patron, directing users to the location of library resources, assisting in the evaluation of information, referring patrons to resources outside the library when appropriate, etc.

of De Boor's edition ) was made by the papal librarian Anastasius from the chronicles of Patriarch Nicephorus, George Syncellus, and Theophanes for the use of a deacon named Johannes in the second half of the ninth century, and thus was known to Western Europe.

Stanley Pargellis, the fifth Newberry librarian ( 1942 – 1962 ), broadened the library's mission, launching scholarly outreach programs ( such as fellowships, conferences, and the Newberry Library Bulletin ) to publicize the library's holdings and encourage their use.

At that time there was no facility for independent study in the north of England and Chetham's will of 1651 had stipulated that the Library should be ' for the use of schollars and others well affected ', and instructed the librarian ' to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library '.

Having once tried to use the Language & Literature Library for an unofficial photo session, he was asked to leave by the librarian who did not know who he was.

He was taught how to use the astrolabe by Sarcephalus ( Christopher Hauptfleisch ), a librarian in Breslau ( Wrocław ).

* Oracle ( Barbara Gordon )-Offered the use of her legs again, invulnerability and powers to rival Superman's if she would become his librarian, while her soul was hers to keep.

To further illustrate her opinion that there was no discrimination in regard to sex in the American Library Association, she refers to Miss Caroline M. Hewins, librarian of the Hartford Public Library, who was the first woman to ask a question before a meeting of the American Library Association in 1877, the association ’ s second meeting, and Miss Mary A. Bean, the librarian of the Brookline Public Library, who was the first woman to appear on a library program, by reading a paper on “ The evil of unlimited freedom in the use of juvenile fiction ” in the 1879 meeting in Boston.

She was the first librarian of the library, and in 1960 requested that the Library be named for Dr. Weaver, a prominent black citizen who allowed local young people to use his private library.

University of Toronto librarian, Jenny Mendelsohn, in an online guide to major sources of information about Jews and Judaism, writes of the Encyclopedia, " Although published in the early 1900s, this was a work highly regarded for its scholarship.

It has generally been published quarterly by the Baywood Publishing Company, but the most recent issue released ( as of March of 2012 ), volume 36 number 3, is from 2007 ( without explanation other than ' behind schedule '-- personal communication with librarian after online search — but expected issue in May of 2012 ).

The site, named after the University's first professional librarian, evolved from an earlier collection of online resources.

The News & Observer newspaper's nickname, " The N & O ," gave the site its name, presented online as NandO or Nando, apparently after the newspaper's News Library staff pointed out that the ampersand would create difficultes in database construction and so coined the title of NandO, according to Teresa Leonard, chief librarian of The News & Observer.