Reference librarians must reassess their service priorities and service delivery methods in order to operate efficiently and compete effectively with commercial information services. Areas of concern include inappropriate allocation of librarians' time to tasks not requiring their skills, and inherently inefficient service delivery methods. The potential of a consultation model of service delivery is addressed.
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Karen Storin Summerhill (1994) studied this question.
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