The Guide is, it must be recognized, a very special sort of reference work.
We can commend Sabin for enlarging Power's dilettante list into a reference work.
Labbe's Bibliotheca bibliothecarum needs only a new index of subjects to become a reference work useful to a modern scholar.
The matters thus marked are dealt with more fully under the Division on Reference Work, but are included here for the sake of giving a complete conspectus of the material involved in selection.
A natural preliminary inquiry presents itself: Is reference work in all its phases adequately performed already?
The plan to combine the catalog and reference departments, the assistants working one-third of their time in reference work, brings excellent results.
In one case the reference and cataloging work are combined in one department; in general, reference work seems to be the catalogers' favorite side line.
The following excellent advice is from an article on The use of periodicals in reference work, by Frederick Winthrop Faxon, in Public Libraries for June, 1898: "In all reference work periodicals play a large part.
Reference work in libraries large and small has for its first rule: Meet the inquirer more than half way.
The adult collection will always be found an important help in reference work.
By "reference work" is meant work done in assisting the public to use the resources of the library.
Sometimes it may be necessary to make use of weak or faulty prints in reference work, if a subject is sparingly illustrated, but such material should be reserved for this purpose rather than posted on bulletins.
A moderate amount of reference work so conducted would be of greater benefit than a large quantity of the random sort which we now commonly have.
Schools now place much less reliance than formerly upon text-books, while on the other hand they require of the student more collateral reading and reference work.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reference work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
