Sentence examples for reference service from inspiring English sources

A letter to the mayor's office from Eugene J. Bockman, director of the municipal reference service, does not refer at all to 1625, but says, "The first Dutch colonists arrived here about the middle of May 1623 after it had been declared a Dutch province".

The reference service has been around, in a limited way, for as long as telephones have been available in homes.

Today, despite the Internet, the eight women and two men of what is known as the telephone reference service are still at it.

She is a development manager in New York for Questia Media, a Houston company that plans to offer an online reference service next year.

In reference service, librarians have traditionally given personal help to readers in making the best use of collections to satisfy their information needs.

Sometimes such arguments moved to Wikipedia, a user-generated reference service, whose elaborate moderation rules put a limit to acrimony.But e-arguments also led to hacking wars.

If you invest in mutual funds rather than individual stocks, use reference services like Morningstar, the fund research firm in Chicago.

"The State Archives did not receive from the Pataki administration many types of records that have been received from prior administrations," said James D. Folts, the archives' chief of reference services.

Susan Gale Zaremba, 57, of Manhasset, the head of adult reference services at the Gold Coast Public Library in Glen Head, recalled Mrs. Doyle's emphasis on penmanship.

"It was embarrassing," said IRENE AVENS, the head of reference services, who also had to remind men that removing their jackets was a no-no.

Reference services can be broadly divided into two main aspects, usually known as retrospective searching (or information retrieval) and current-awareness service (or selective dissemination of information).