Sentence examples for reference desk from inspiring English sources

The final finding: On average, my library's reference desk staplers succumbed after 46.5 days of service".

They usually keep one near the reference desk, by the dictionaries.

Doughty contacted him after he set up his own death-based website, the Death Reference Desk.

First to be sliced by the electronic teeth were several pink sheets with handwritten requests to the reference desk.

Like the other dozen or so librarians at the reference desk of the library's landmark Fifth Avenue building, Mr. Smith provides information free.

She was updating a library Web page and was about to start her shift on the reference desk, where she would continue to work on the Web site.

But in this Google-driven age, that information is increasingly retrieved by people through computers, not card catalogues or reference desks.

"Who would want to become a librarian now?" asked an anonymous public servant on National Libraries Day, seeing before them a graveyard of dead libraries and old reference desks filled by volunteers.

Others have hit the real-life pavement — for example, during the 2008 Republican National Convention, when "street librarians" from a group called Radical Reference milled among the protesters, handing out bathroom maps and legal aid information while fielding questions through a live hookup to their reference desks.

The library is complete with several reference desks, over 30 computers, and the Institute of Saint Anselm Studies.

Many colleges hire students to staff reference desks and reshelve books, among other duties.