The reference function of the library
Subtitle: papers presented before the Library Institute at the University of Chicago, June 29 to July 10, 1942.
By: Edited by Pierce Butler, with a foreword by Louis Round Wilson.
Contributors: Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953, ed.
Series: The University of Chicago studies in library science.; University of Chicago studies in library science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Reference services (Libraries) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Table of contents: title: Survey of the reference field, by Pierce Butler.; title: The reference function in the large public library, by C. F. McCombs.; title: The reference function in the small and medium-sized public library, by Paul Howard.; title: The reference function in the school library, by Frances Henne.; title: The reference function in the college library, by G. R. Lyle.; title: The reference function in the university and research library, by Homer Halvorson.; title: Special reference problems in art and music, by S. E. Gwynn.; title: Special reference problems in map collections, by L. A. Brown.; title: Special reference problems in the social sciences, by E. S. Griffith.; title: Special reference problems in science and technology, by K. L. Taylor.; title: The humanist in the library, by A. H. Carter.; title: Administrative problems in reference work, by Mary N. Barton.; title: Personnel and training for reference work, by Anne M. Boyd.; title: Book selection for reference work, by J. W. Spargo.; title: Reference work in the rare-book room, by P. M. Angle.; title: Supplementary reference materials, by A. F. Kuhlman.; title: Special reference functions in wartime, by R. R. Munn.; title: Selected reading list (p. 341-349)