New Book

• Managing the Twenty-First Century Reference Department: Challenges and Prospects edited by Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah

FYI: "Managing the Twenty-First Century Reference Department: Challenges and Prospects has been co published simultaneously as The Reference Librarian, Number 81 2003." - from the title page

Sometimes when journals are published, we skim the articles and years later we wish to revisit the concepts presented when they become relevant to us. Having topic-dedicated issues repackaged in book form somehow seems more readable. While many of the articles focus on academic libraries, as academics generally publish more, the core concepts translate to public librarianship.