id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15055 Crist, Margo The Reference Assessment Manual (Book Review) 1996-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1108 67 58 The fifteen chapters cover the full array of reference service components, for example, library users and reference pa- trons, reference environment, electronic databases and reference assistance, refer- ence training, costs and outcomes, and reference effectiveness. Since we know so little as yet about the ways in which the Internet, electronic reference tools, or ex- pert systems will affect the reference trans- action and its assessment, it seems prema- ture to assume that what has been tested and used effectively in a paper-based world will be entirely valid and usefulas is or with minimal change in the emerg- ing electronic and networked world. cache/crl-15055.pdf txt/crl-15055.txt