id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14888 Brown, Janet Dagenais Using Quality Concepts to Improve Reference Services 1994-05-01 10 .pdf application/pdf 5714 302 58 THE PROBLEM While guidelines and definitions that describe quality reference service are helpful and stimulating to information providers, they do not really offer prac- tical direction. The Standards and Guidelines Committee of the Reference and Adult Services Divi- sion of the American Library Associa- tion, for example, has developed Infor- mation Services for Information Con- sumers: Guidelines for Providers, which outlines in detail what libraries must do to provide quality service to their patrons. cache/crl-14888.pdf txt/crl-14888.txt