Can Student Assistants Effectively Provide Chat Reference Services? Student Transcripts vs. Librarian Transcripts.

To determine if undergraduate student information desk assistants were effectively staffing the library's chat reference service, librarians at Bowling Green State University embarked on a chat transcript analysis project, comparing the performance of librarians to student assistants. Although stude...

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Publicado en:Internet Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 21; no. 3/4; pp. 115 - 140
Autores principales: Lux, Vera J., Rich, Linda
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Dec2016
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          Lux, Vera J.
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          Text Messaging
          Library Reference Services
          World Wide Web
          Colleges and Universities Kentucky
          Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
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          Kentucky
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      ab: To determine if undergraduate student information desk assistants were effectively staffing the library's chat reference service, librarians at Bowling Green State University embarked on a chat transcript analysis project, comparing the performance of librarians to student assistants. Although student desk assistants generally did not perform as well as librarians, it was concluded that with a renewed emphasis on continual oversight and training, students were a very viable option for staffing a chat reference service.
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