id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14919 Lewis, David W. Making Academic Reference Services Work 1994-09-01 12 .pdf application/pdf 7473 396 50 To make reference service in academic libraries effective Jive changes are required: (1) reference librarians must be given clear budgetary and programmatic authority; (2) the hierarchy must be flattened and reference librarians placed closer to the top of the organization; (3) support services ·must be provided so that reference librarians are not encumbered by nonprofessional tasks; ( 4) reference librarians should be brought together and not isolated in small departments; and (5) public services planning and priority setting should be done by reference librarians. Absent from most of the discussion is an understanding that organizational changes are required if reference librarians are to accomplish what is being asked of them. cache/crl-14919.pdf txt/crl-14919.txt