For years, we’ve been hearing that traditional library reference service is dead. In reality, reference just disappeared, like Jimmy Hoffa. But unlike in the case of Hoffa, no one in the library field ...

One year ago, columnist Brian Kenney wrote a piece for PW titled “Where Reference Fits in the Modern Library.” The column addressed his frustration with the gulf between reference work as he ...

Reference books are books in which the information is organized so that you can find the information you need relatively quickly. Books in the reference section summarize and organize information so ...

Online research has supplanted the central role that reference books used to play in millions of households, but there is still no substitute for the tactile pleasure or serendipitous discovery that ...

Security procedures at the Lisle Library will be evaluated after a Glen Ellyn man who worked as a late-night janitor was charged with carting off thousands of stolen library books and DVDs, officials ...