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  • × author_ss:"Westbrook, L."
  • × theme_ss:"Informationsdienstleistungen"
  1. Westbrook, L.; DeDecker, S.: Supporting user needs and skills to minimize library anxiety : considerations for academic libraries (1993) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    The increasing diversity of users in today's academic libraries, coupled with the overwhelming amount of information available in a variety of formats, often forms barriers which prevent users from feeling sufficiently comfortable in approaching the reference desk to ask for assistance. Suggests guidelines for use by academic librarians in evaluating facilities, services and staff in their libraries to assess their effectiveness in welcoming users and validating their information needs
  2. Westbrook, L.; DeDecker, S.: Supporting user needs and skills to minimize library anxiety : considerations for academic libraries (1993) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    Academic reference and instruction librarians are committed to providing excellent and appropriate service to their library users. However, the increasing diversity of users in today's academic libraries, coupled with the overwhelming amount of information available in a variety of formats, orften form barriers which prevent users from feeling sufficiently comfortable in approaching the reference desk to ask for assistance. Guidelines are suggested for use by academic librarians in evaluating facilities, services and staff in their libraries to assess their effectiveness in welcoming users and validating their information needs
  3. Westbrook, L.: Unanswerable questions at the IPL : user expectations of e-mail reference (2009) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    Purpose - In a 31-month period, 1,184 questions addressed to the Internet Public Library's (IPL) reference service remained unanswered on the grounds that they were "out of scope". This paper aims to analyze the questions as artifacts of users' expectations to better chart the distinction between user and librarian views of reference service. Design/methodology/approach - Each question is examined to identify two user expectations, i.e. what kinds of information librarians could provide and what kinds of needs librarians could help meet. Emergent coding with a code-recode rate of 97 per cent identifies 23 types of expected librarian assistance and 28 characteristics of expected applications of that assistance. Findings - Users expect IPL librarians to provide personal advice, analysis, facts, procedures, instruction, technology guidance and evaluation. IPL librarians are expected to help users in making decisions, solving problems, completing processes and developing understanding. Research limitations/implications - Limitations include the use of a single coder and the use of single institution's data set. Mapping these user expectations suggests a need for librarians to consider further development of reference service in terms of its judgment, form, and involvement parameters. Practical implications - Reference service policies and training should be examined to enhance librarians' abilities to consider judgment, form, and involvement parameters primarily from the user's perspective. Originality/value - This paper analyzes that which is rarely seen, i.e. e-mail reference questions which are considered beyond the scope of service. Additionally, the IPL question pool provides a broader range of user mental models than would be found in any geographically bound institution.

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