Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Department

Libraries

Abstract

This essay explores the more unusual requests faculty and students make that are outside the normal scope of reference services. The author provides a list of considerations deciding to fulfill those requests and suggestions for refusing them.

Comments

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Original Publication Information

Petrey, Jessica. "Offbeat Reference Requests: When to Say Yes and How to Say No." 2018. Journal of New Librarianship 3: 66-69.

https://doi.org/10.21173/newlibs/4/13

DOI

10.21173/newlibs/4/13

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