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University Library Virtual Reference Services: Best Practices and Continuous Improvement
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Shaw, Kate; Spink, Amanda – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
The inclusion or not of chat services within Virtual Reference (VR) is an important topic for university libraries. Increasingly, email supported by a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) database is suggested in the scholarly literature as the preferred, cost-effective means for providing university VR services. This paper examines these issues and…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Reference Services, Best Practices, Academic Libraries